The more things change, the more they stay the same.
When the industrial revolution took hold, people started leaving their farms and homes in droves, flocking to the cities to find new work. Factories were born as was a system of free education for the masses to feed the production line’s insatiable appetite for workers.
A century or so later, ChatGPT 4 has burst onto the scene marking a new revolution (which actually began, unnoticed, a decade or so ago).