We’ve lived through a skills apocalypse before. The solution might look like a flight simulator

Roughly 2,400 years ago, Socrates warned that a dangerous new technology would hollow out the human mind. In Plato’s Phaedrus , he tells the story of the Egyptian god Theuth, who presents writing to the king as a gift that will make people wiser. Writing, he replies, will do the opposite: People will stop exercising their memory because they’ll trust the marks on the page instead.