When I was 20, I took a class on human sex taught by an amazing professor. I became his teaching assistant. Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time learning about human reproductive biology. And I see a huge gap between what kids know and what they should know.

My son Micah is 12 years old. His older brother, Shai, is, let’s say, an “advanced” student who spends most of his time improving his skills at Blender, a 3D modeling application. Shai is well into the top 1 percent of teenagers doing computer graphics. Other kids seek him out to make 3D models for their projects. Occasionally, Shai plays a video game, which I’m thankful to see, otherwise he’d spend all his time building 3D models and programming up new designs. He usually stops work and goes to bed around 11:30pm. He’s 14. …

If you’ve read my essay The Machine Economy, you know that I look at the world in terms of the big shifts — shifts that change everything — so that life before and after are fundamentally different. I believe we are now in an awkward transition phase between humans interacting with other humans and machines doing all that work for us. It’s pretty easy to see that in 50 years, close to 100 percent of all decisions will be made by machines, rather than by humans using machines. …