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Consider the failing systems - after years of reliability and stable operation, suddenly legacy systems are breaking - transportation, logistics, product quality, public health, banking, general government oversight...all falling victim to eroding competence. Not that people have become lazy or apathetic - thought in many cases, that applies, or are any less "educated" - again, though many suffer from chosen ignorance, but from knowledge and skillset erosion from generation to generation - a natural causal effect from the legacy teaching/training methods - also failing in spectacular ways. The one mentor to many pupil approach - in all its forms - suffers from an inherent lack of specificity and blurred clarity as modern human attention drifts from boring linear information delivery. What can we expect from the future when this volcano of incompetency erupts? Will A.I. be ready to "take charge" of critical systems and services in-time to save humanity from devolving into impulsive, animalistic, survivalists driven by instinct rather than rational thinking? What is the cataclysmic outcome of this trend if not reversed? Can we adopt new methods for knowledge exchange that undo this? Are we able to graduate from linear thought and communications to something more efficient? What evolution needs to happen - physically, intellectually, biologically, spiritually...in order to rise above this? Are there innovations emerging now that might converge to provide that world?

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