I just watched a clip of some 12 year-old futurist pontificating about how AI is going to completely change the world. It was the same techno-utopian bullshit we've been hearing for the past half a century but what really struck me was how completely ignorant he was of history. When he spoke of the past it was clear he didn't have the slightest idea of what he was talking about - it was just a bunch of vague trivia he'd picked up via cultural osmosis. He knows nothing of what came before and to him it's all obsolete now anyway. People like that frighten me.