Three reasons every parent should care about AI right now
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July 12, 2026
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HOW many telephone numbers do you remember by heart?
I still know my very first home number. As a child, I would pretend to dial it on the rotary phone in my parents’ living room. Then the smart phone arrived and, like most of us, I stopped memorising numbers because my phone did it for me.
This is a pattern of cognitive offloading which has repeated itself throughout history. Moving from oral tradition to writing reduced our capacity to memorise entire texts but expanded access to knowledge. Calculators put mental arithmetic under pressure but laid the foundation for the engineering and computing which gave us artificial intelligence (AI) in the first place.
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