Something is up. First, the educational system (High School, and especially College) was about beating in (ie, indoctrinating) conformance, compliance, "teamwork" (leaving yourself a slave to the shht of others, in place of getting on with what needs to be done), focus (rather than branching out, hedging your bets, diversifying, etc), and other things that seemed irrelevant when it came to setting one up to be competitive and prosperous in the world at large.<p>I graduated at the end 2007, but it's likely things haven't changed much now. Everything was watered down, even though I was a Computer Engineering major, and there wasn't much to be gained from all that was being pumped in. In fact, it's as though they were trying to beat out of me whatever good was left, to then have there be nothing but an empty, uncompetitive, cookie-cutter shell of a person.<p>This approach does not line up with how the world seems to be trending, and with the "rise" of these AIs and advanced automation strategies. I'm not sure what's going to happen, but it's either going to be really bad in general, or everything will collapse forcing the need to reinforce, strengthen, or otherwise make better the BS that is the educational system and introduction to the working world.<p>Other things will need to change. Performance enhancers (safe, side-effect free smart drugs) may be one way to help things along (not current ones, but new and more advanced developments to meet future needs), but that could easily descend into "drugged up" culture, which is pointless.<p>Many things can easily be automated away to leave room to work on more interesting things and to not be as tied down as in times past; however, in looking at the groups and people behind most potential advances, I'm more scared that optimistic. I'd generally be optimistic, but these people seem either clueless, or not well intentioned. That seems like a recipe for a bad outcome.<p>Either way, it's about time things started getting good. Factoring endless amounts of things into an online dating match percentage calculating algorithm? Yes! It would be great to have the online dating system take into consideration many things that it would take a normal person years to evaluate on their own. And with the increased popularity/availability of smartphones, it should be fairly trivial to verify profiles, and collect information privately (and securely-- to avoid it being resold/misused by dating sites) that will further enhance the matching algorithms/strategies.<p>It would be nice to approach a period in time where an online dating app helps you discover who you are, what you want, what you value, and other things in the direction of better understanding yourself and what you want/need in a relationship (versus being indoctrinated with some arbitrary irrelevant garbage).<p>The same idea can be applied to job searching, roommate finding, business partner seeking, college selection, and many other things. I think it's been established (maybe just in my mind) that they are at least in the realm of "solvable," so now it's about doing so properly, to not end up spinning on another iteration of the same garbage.