Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids! When will it end?
What's new about that? The public school system that consumes increasing amounts of kids' (and parents') time and attention is "inanimate" in the worst kind of way: unthinking, unresponsive, undifferentiated, and increasingly automated and centrally controlled, populated by teachers and staff that are becoming more robotic every day.
Any technology that has the potential to play a part in providing an alternative is welcome.
(1) Is it really a completely separate ecosystem?
(2) Does that really have anything to do with the possibility of life originating on other planets?
It's certainly not separate in the sense that it would provide any kind of interesting model for what we might find on other planets. 2,500 years is an instant in evolutionary time and the existence a group of organisms that are just recently isolated is quite a different matter from life that evolved totally independently. Id does indicate though (but we already know this) that live can exist in what we would consider pretty extreme conditions.
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Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids! When will it end?
What's new about that? The public school system that consumes increasing amounts of kids' (and parents') time and attention is "inanimate" in the worst kind of way: unthinking, unresponsive, undifferentiated, and increasingly automated and centrally controlled, populated by teachers and staff that are becoming more robotic every day.
Any technology that has the potential to play a part in providing an alternative is welcome.