I silently still laugh at the fact that teachers told us we wouldnt be carrying around calculators

And now we have smart phones, and I havent done math since high school, and all things numbers I pay other people for

“You’ll see”….yeah fucking right

— Alexander “Chadicus Rex” Cortes PhD (BroScience) (@AJA_Cortes) August 19, 2020

That is funny. My teachers told me the same thing. It was a lie, and I knew it even then.

This is apart from my dislike of doing math, but I can almost guarantee that math education will become less and less relevant over the next 20-50 years. It’ll all be handled much more competently and quickly by AI/expert systems and beyond understanding the basics in 50 years, even 99% of scientists won’t actually use much math directly. It’ll decline in teaching and importance and the “M” in “STEM” will come to stand for “Machine Learning.”

Most math education is an utter waste of time and is just busywork anyway, so no great loss.