When Tomorrow’s Magic Feels Like Today’s Play

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Machines taking over? Scary visions surface, but in reality—we watch kids turn cardboard into rockets! Civilisation? No, let’s say civilization—with AI’s risks come kids creating galaxies right at the dinner table.

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Is AI Like Training Wheels for Your Child’s Future?

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The wheels, not the engine—encouraging them to explore what tech can’t currently do, like making laughter out of mayhem! (Hence why we play outside daily.) Training wheels teach balance before permanent freedom. Similarly, today’s AI interfaces guide little minds on thinking techniques, not prescripts.

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When my daughter asked for a song about crocodile surfers (full story: pandemic lockdown boredom), we searched together for AI music generators. Did it hit on the first try? Nope! It took three iterations to create something that inspired her own monster surf sounds with real hula-hoops and breakfast bowls. Translating from abstract idea to tangible outcome? That’s creative literacy, folks.

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I see code everywhere, but out back? It’s the same kind of limit-testing as when she’d hop on her bike barefoot, pretending to be Clark Kent on a cross-Canada adventure. She decides where to explore tech, and where to plunge into gluten-based construction projects (her words, our kitchen tragedy). Hope that zaps your crankiness like a magic wand—because grounded curiosity? That’s the dynamite you want for Cub Scouts to go deeper, not for kids to just ‘go digital and vanish.’

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Source: AI Might Make Everything Amazing, Daniel Miessler, 2025-08-14