>With Internet based education, society has the potential to make education virtually free since the cost of distribution is essentially zero. It's only when pe

>With Internet based education, society has the potential to make education virtually free since the cost of distribution is essentially zero. It's only when people need access to special equipment or more hands on lab style education where facilities and mentors will be needed. The "education system" isn't an education system, it is a selection system and its function is almost purely social, filtering most people out of attractive social locations. Additionally, even if the number of engineers doubled overnight, there would not be a proportional increase in firms or jobs because that is not what drives the economy - new initiatives do, and that doesn't come from education (see Schumpeter on the role of the entrepreneur.) Further, as you admit, belief in AI is just that: belief. It is ideology and like religion has nothing to do with science, or reality.