When North America, thank you Reagan, threw away our manufacturing economies, we also threw away our ability to understand how systems and processes of machines, machining and manufacturing, at any scale, actually work. Ironically in favour of "knowledge work", and a presumptive services economy.

My fear is that in the wholesale adoption of AI, we're following up that tectonic mistake by throwing away our ability to understand how knowledge works.

And... what's left after that?

Anything?

TIL that twice a year Hawaii looks badly rendered for astrophysical reasons.