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Papert was so ahead of his time. Had to double check when it was written, because it could have been yesterday. Raising a kid in the age of AI adds quite a bit of weight to this. Papert was the probably the first one to take kids education as one of the domains that could be seriously impacted by artificial intelligence. Anyone working in education should read it. And anyone working in AI should read it. It bulldozes the myth that only a certainly inclined group of kids can be good at math and programming. So so ahead of its time.

I initially had trouble adjusting to the tone this is written in. Sounded like someone attempting a David Attenborough larp. The chapters have a nice structure once you get used to that.

A few things I didn’t know about how the ecosystems of this world came into being. It ends on a balanced note about climate change.

Still not addressing how disproportionate the effects of mitigating it are in the West vs the rest of the world. But an optimistic view of what we can do, which I didn’t expect.