An Endless
Future.
Rebuilding humanity in the age of AI.
The next ten years will decide what kind of species we become. This book is an argument for what to do about it, and a record of trying.
Every few centuries a technology arrives that re-writes what it means to be human. The printing press. Electricity. The internet. We are living inside the next one. The question is not whether AI will reshape us, but who we choose to become while it does.
The Stakes.
A view through time, peering back in history and forward into the future, to understand the world we will grow old in.
"Where would you place the needle?"
- from "README"
The Principles.
A scavenger hunt for the principles that can help three billion young people become fluent in the technologies of this era.
"If we must teach them all to be fluent in the technologies of our era, at that scale, what clues can we turn to?"
- from "README"
- 20The Typing Monkeys
- 21How We Work
- 22The Cost of an Educated Human
- 23The Hidden Barriers of Education
- 24“The New American” School
- 25Realm 5
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- 26Thank You, Teachers
- 27What Is Infinitely Scalable?
- 28How Did The Tech Titans Learn To Code?
- 29Where Are All The Good Education Games?
- 30Make To Learn
- 31The Black Box
- 32Practice Makes Professional
- 33Open Source: The Most Scalable School in History
- 34The Atomic Nature of Software Development
- 35The Educational Value of a Task
- 36From Play to Pay: Games Built By The Community
- 37The Skill Curve To Professional
- 38The Teacher of Silicon Valley
- 39The Hero in the Basement
- 40Portfolios Are More Important Than Pedigree
- 41Free To Learn
The Dream.
The roadmap for Endless: concrete, communal, and built so others can carry the mission further than one organization can.
"The solution is the community."
- from "README"
Matt Dalio
I've spent fifteen years building technology for the people the internet forgot. First through a laptop you could afford on five dollars a month. Then through an operating system that worked without the internet. Now through a game studio where teenagers are apprenticing into the careers that will define the next century.
This book is the long-form argument behind the work. It is the why - the case that the next ten years will decide what kind of species we become, and that the most important lever we have is the next generation. The work itself happens at Endless. If the book convinces you of anything, that's where it's being built.
This is a draft. Help me sharpen it.
This is a manuscript in progress, not a finished book. I'm publishing it early, chapter by chapter, in public, because the argument gets better when real readers push on it. If something rings true, if something rings false, or if I've missed something you can't unsee, I want to hear it.
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