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Education: best or worst thing ever?

Recently, there has been a lot of controversy regarding our societies current education method. Some hail it as if there was no other thing that was better that it, others think about it as complete garbage. Whatever your opinion about this subject is, we'll discuss why it is so hated worldwide. So, every people who hates our education method have a very decent point in their advantage, saying that, well, that schools can't predict the future. The main problem in education, according to most people, is that we are currently teaching students to work in 2017, while in 2021, for example, jobs might need completely different things that had to be taught today, and we don't. Of course, they are not getting mad with schools because they want them to predict the future, what their solution is, it's to reinvent our way of teaching. Today, we give students exact instructions, "do this, in this place, in this way, in this time". However, what if, instead of treatin

"True Love" by Isaac Asimov, A tale of artificial love

Recently, we've read the Sci-Fi story called "True Love" by Isaac Asimov. I don't like the term "Science Fiction" because the word "Fiction" compares it to unicorns, and other kinds of stuff that are completely impossible. However, some science fiction can be, theoretically , possible, given humanity enough time and research. In my opinion, it was a story that's mostly centered about the creator of an AI that's able to access everyone's personal information, that tries to discover an "algorithm" for him to be able to find their perfect match. This sounds weird at first, since one thinks that there's no "reliable" way of finding love, since love cannot be finded, love finds you. However, as Milton suggests, there are some ways to very accurately "guess" who would be a good partner. They literally pass through every women in the world, step by step, every time decreasing the quantity, until they end up