I have another recent comment where I lament that the rise of intelligent machines will lead to humans being looked on as just another machine to do a job by those with ultimate power in our society, but according to this, we have already become those machine cogs.<p>Instead of trying to produce a "whole person" out of the schooling system in America, we are trying to produce specialized devices for the performance of certain tasks. Some of the students are sorted into the "high power devices" bin (lawyers, programmers, etc.), some into the "low power device" bin (manual labor), and some into the rubbish bin (physically disabled, mentally ill, etc.). Much like Intel bins their chips, in fact. Once you bin the parts from the school system, then you start to ship those parts throughout the workforce, or perhaps do some modifications to them in a university to achieve the most optimal output.<p>I guess there were a lot of people who saw this before me, and I am sure that like them my view will never get mainstream traction. Someday, perhaps, an AI will be developed to read our internet comments, and I'll be labeled as someone who needs maintenance and shipped off to a re-education facility.