I didn't know how to answer him for a moment, I was leaning towards the latter. I'd like to say that we can cut down and replant in moderation, I'd like to say that maybe the process of making paper books improves to make more books with fewer trees, or that it's possible to make paper books without the need to use trees as a material. But who's to say that the process for electronic devices won't improve, thus reducing the chances of myopia?
Children today are fortunate to be born into an era of technological innovation and the rise of artificial intelligence. They have more and more resources at their fingertips and more information everywhere. Intelligent robots, autonomous driving, face recognition, aerial photography by drones, intelligent logistics based on AI algorithms, consumer profiling based on the construction of AI interaction scenarios ...... All of these have been successfully applied to the business environment, and it's really impossible to imagine what the future era will develop into.
The production line assembly workers have been replaced, the supermarket cashier has been replaced, the report will be automatically generated, PPT has a set of templates, household chores have automated machines, go out with a variety of sweeping mobility tools. The education industry has also become the field of artificial intelligence to enter the fray, e-books will gradually replace paper books? Online courses will replace the teacher on the podium?
Born in the current of the times, we can't dominate our children's choices and we don't want to induce their tendencies. We only want them to follow their own feelings and thoughts to make judgments and choices.
In fact, when people tend to choose one way, they slowly discard the other way, because after getting used to one way, they become addicted. In the age of data, none of us want to be condensed into just a blip in an AI algorithm, a mark in someone else's Kanban board.
But reason defeats emotion as the default way to best adapt to survival. We're used to upholding the sword of reason to cloak ourselves, weighing left and right, analyzing pros and cons. As more and more smart devices replace human brain communication, we begin to stop interacting with each other and dialoguing with ourselves. Human nature is being utilized to the fullest extent in the business ecosystem, but we are becoming less and less aware of ourselves, and less able to hear our own voices and feel our own feelings.
Like the words of Liu Qingfeng, chairman of KU Xunfei, at the end of "The Future of Education, Enabled by A.I. - 2020 Global Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Education Conference (A.I.D.E)" on December 11 last year: "We believe that the future belongs not to AI, but to the new human beings who have mastered it." In his opinion, "AI can have all the knowledge in the world, but it can't replace a teacher; it can easily diagnose any disease, but it can't replace a doctor; it can know all the secrets of growing up, but it can't replace a mother. Because, human beings have something that AI does not have: empathy, imagination, moving, love ......" and these are exactly the qualities that a large number of teachers and parents ignore that children should have.
What is to prevent children from becoming mere samples for universal analysis in the future? How can we help them to become physically and mentally healthy people with social morals and good qualities? It is necessary to respect the personality of each individual, and to guide their growth in a way that replaces helping them to make choices. Let them learn to keep the good time for their own heart, dedicate to their real interest, and the real interest of the people.