Wow, that's a lot to unpack there. I tend to look at the emerging situation "added complication". What I mean is that every single job gets progressively more difficult. I remember my mother complaining about Excel being introduced into her workplace a couple of decades ago. It was one hell of a skill to learn - how to power up the PC and then Excel itself was no joke to use. Her story has a happy ending - now, retired, she keeps all her financial records in Excel, and having Office was the number one requirement when I was choosing a computer for her.

My point is, it is not easy to learn how to operate new machinery, how to utilize AI (not just at the technical level of proficiency, but, as you said, even at the level of application: how does it fit in your business?). You have to know more, and it's not about depth anymore, as it used to be, but more about width. You have numerous pieces in one large puzzle that you have to put together.

This has profound implications for education. Not only there is too much to potentially teach, the situation is further complicated by the fact that we have no idea what is going to happen in 5 years. Our education systems are what they are because they are lost. They are clueless because they cling onto the old philosophy behind education while realizing they have to teach towards new goals.

In my opinion, we can't have a curriculum oriented towards today because we know it won't help learners, but we always can't orient it towards tomorrow because we don't know what tomorrow is going to be like. What we can do, however, is to orient our children towards the only thing we know about the future - it is going to be unpredictable and volatile, but full of opportunities. This idea again goes back to the call of reorganizing schools around such goals as promotion of critical thinking and creativity, and less around the goals that teach knowledge that will likely be outdated by the time they leave school or graduate from university.

My 2 cents (literally, too =) )