Neal Stephenson imagined an AI-powered future of education about 30 years ago that honestly felt quaint to re-read over the past few years. Until last year, when all of his speculations began to play out in the real world. I don’t think anyone in the discussion above is even cognizant of the Diamond Age, and I know they have no idea about the pre-AI, hybrid online/in-person school program I helped develop and run 10 years ago, which filled in the “second half of the day” left over from core content delivered on computers, with inquiry-driven, experiential arts education, facilitated by a small army of local teaching artists from every discipline imaginable. Anyway, I listened to this and breathed a sigh of relief: thank goodness we’re all getting on the same page, at long last, arriving at this futuristic present moment together.