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Future Tense

Research Notes: The Competence Crisis That Wasn't

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A Z Mackay
Feb 26, 2025
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Every time a new technology arrives, someone predicts it will make us stupid. GPS will destroy navigation. Calculators will ruin math. Spell-check will eliminate literacy. AI will atrophy critical thinking. The specifics change. The structure doesn’t. Why do we keep running this script?

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The trail began with a 2020 Scientific Reports stu…

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