Good morning. The benefits and downsides of technology in education are on a lot of people’s minds these days, as AI redefines concepts like studying and learning.
While we grapple with what lies ahead, it can be helpful to look back. Back in August 1966, Fortune magazine’s cover featured a pre-schooler learning to read and write on a primitive machine of the information age—the Edison Responsive Environment’s Talking Typewriter. Fortune’s Indrani Sen recently revisited the cover story from 6 decades ago, and even tracked down the pre-schooler, John Scutieri, who is now 63 and runs a home furnishings business in New York. Scutieri said his 6-year-old grandchild is already adept at using an Apple Watch: “It’s a bit above what I was doing, right?” Read the article here.
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