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saidinesh5yesterday at 5:49 PM0 repliesview on HN

Putting all the cynicism side.. it's amazing how big the changes in how we deal with information in our life time changed..

When I was younger, to solve a problem, we had to memorize a large amount of information. Or know someone who does. Or visit libraries and pray they have a book on what you need.

Then came the internet. All of that memorizing was replaced by web searches. You just focus on solving the problem, figuring out what you don't know and searching for that.

Now, it feels like we're automating the searching, connecting the dots and most of the problem solving. We focus on the high level problem description, verification of the results.

I wonder what they'd be adding to this curriculum.

Now, it feels like we're even offloading