Werner Vogels

Disruptive and, well, you know the stories.

And as such, I've always been a real fan of Ken Robinson, a professor from the UK that moved to Los Angeles at some moment.

And I've been a real fan of him because he really looked at that.

Instead of that we let our kids bloom and explore and become really what they can become, we turn them into factory workers, all doing the same thing.

And that kills all the possibility.

in what these kids have in them.

Well, I think there's enough companies working on them.

But what I see more and more is that these kids are doing it themselves.

Yeah, Gen Alpha, the current kids that are in high school or going to high school, they really know how to use AI or AI assistance.

And they know how to make a curriculum for themselves.

And they know how to make something from which they can learn.

That is really a tool for them to build something that they just want to do.

It helps them build things without having to have to go through a complete textbook first.

Now, I still believe that you need to be able to do maths before you should be allowed to use a calculator.

That seems like a reasonable kind of thing.

But providing, if you're really interested in, let's say, how in the 1600s in Italy, from small states, this became one country, for some reason, I don't know, kids have immense curiosity in anything.

You can build yourself a

a curriculum that you become, not that you become an expert, but that you know everything about it.

And this is something you have, suddenly, you have control over that.

Now, there's always two sides to this.