Dr. David Eagleman

But kids are in a really great situation now.

So there are pros and cons to all this stuff, but I think I'm very optimistic about what this means for the future.

for the warehouse of knowledge that kids can build up now.

And by the way, I saw an interview with Isaac Asimov in 1988.

He was the great science fiction writer who wrote Foundation and so many other books.

And he was saying on the show in 1988, he said, look, I envision a day when there will be one central supercomputer and every house will have a cable running to that supercomputer.

And you can ask any question you want, and it knows the entirety of humankind's knowledge on that computer.

You know, what he was foreseeing here was the internet.

He got the details wrong, but it doesn't matter.

But the idea is he saw how this would be so incredible for education because he pointed out, look, in any classroom, it's going too fast for half the kids, too slow for the other half of the kids.

And if you could just pursue the sphere of humankind's knowledge, if you could enter in whatever door you wanted to –

That's the way to do it because you'll be motivated.

Now, he wasn't talking about brain plasticity or anything, but this is exactly what I'm saying from a brain plasticity point of view.

It really matters.

I'll just mention something, which is a lot of people are concerned that, oh, with AI, we're going to get lazy.

We won't know how to do anything anymore because we can outsource it.

It just so happens that I love doing home improvement.

I'm always fixing my house.

I have 3X'd myself in the last half year because of AI.

Because I take a picture of something, I say, hey, I've never seen this kind of thing before.