> Some may rush to blame teachers and call for their additional training as a way to address this alarming finding. Instead, the work must begin with school leaders, to lay the groundwork for teachers’ success.

Wrong. Everything here is wrong. This article is wrong in every way, about everything. This tension is wrong.

The blame is at our feet. Techies. Tech industry. This is malignant systems that the poor world keeps stumbling into, anti-Enlightenment consumerware, a tar-pit that sucks away understanding. This is the cloud. This is what the cloud wants, this is what mainframes want: ignorant, dumb, useless consumers, addicted to shovelware product & Services as a Software Substitutes (SaaSS).

There's countless problems with Steve Jobs, but once upon a time he got it:

> And that’s what a computer is to me. What a computer is to me is it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with, and it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

But we are not using computers to expand the mind, to help us roam. We are hiding the computers. We are burying the treasured free-wheeling perspective. We are consumerizing, addicting, making "user friendly" systems at the expense of any honest engagement with computing & systems. Our metrics focus on easy adoption, on how long we keep precious eye-balls attached & engaged. We do not help the user go where they might, in a lightweight adaptable vehicle: we shuttle them about, strapped tightly into well-tested thoroughly designed user-experience vessels on programmed user-experience rails.

In the cloud, every system is unlearnable. There are opaque expert intelligences at every corner, algorithms, deciding what we do and do not experience, and we have no insight into those systems. Knowledge of one app/cloud/system convey no useful expectations or knowledge of another system. All systems are remote, far off, unexploreable, unlearnable. Google, champion of the web, builds countless systems where there are no URLs, where middle clicking doesn't work: Google Play Music, Google Calendar, Youtube Music. Anti-hyper-links, app-links: the old narrow shitty things that defy commonality. Narrow, cloistered, prescribed paths are the only options, the only networking we are afforded. Access to data is only via well-regulated deeply-deeply-intermediated interfaces that we users have no say over. The digital has become that which is unknowable. Weep, techies, our progress has brought unknownable unlearnable din & confinement. What we have brought is the opposite of the potential & promise we carried. We have taken the tools of infinite liberty & freedom & with them we have built the hardest of iron cages.