Keeping education relevant in times of change

Abstract

The recursive interactions between the inherent qualities of technology and human intellect enabled us to overcome our limitations and extend the capabilities of the same technologies beyond what they may have been originally designed to do. From a deterministic point of view it can be assumed that technology will always tail and sustain human progress but as a new class of intelligent machines permeates and gains a strong foothold within our economic scenarios, then that is about to change. The consolidation of a new generation of autonomous intelligent machines, that are capable of working independently of human supervision are provoking a new culturally and technologically driven reality. Such autonomous machines, may for now be limited in their functions. However, as they become progressively more sophisticated, we can potentially be facing thinking machines which as they seamlessly merge within what humans do, then several human administered jobs will be transferred to the machines, inducing redundancy from work.