Probably not worth it, no—though most kids would go through gramophones, casette players and CDs in a matter of weeks or months before they reached MP3s and music directly downloadable into your brain.
And we could say that life-extension tech and other health-supportive technologies are excluded from this requirement, so as to prevent this weirdtopia from being a simple dystopia.
Simpler one is, having your life extended by medical interventions doesn’t require proficiency because you’re not /using/ the technology in question, just paying someone else to use it on your behalf (specifically, on your body). Same way that world wouldn’t require someone to master calligraphy before dictating a letter to be written down by a secretary.
Weirder one is, failure to fast-track your kids through basic medical tech is considered a form of child abuse, on the same level as denying them social contact or nutrition, and for the same reasons.
Probably not worth it, no—though most kids would go through gramophones, casette players and CDs in a matter of weeks or months before they reached MP3s and music directly downloadable into your brain.
And we could say that life-extension tech and other health-supportive technologies are excluded from this requirement, so as to prevent this weirdtopia from being a simple dystopia.
Two explanations I can think of.
Simpler one is, having your life extended by medical interventions doesn’t require proficiency because you’re not /using/ the technology in question, just paying someone else to use it on your behalf (specifically, on your body). Same way that world wouldn’t require someone to master calligraphy before dictating a letter to be written down by a secretary.
Weirder one is, failure to fast-track your kids through basic medical tech is considered a form of child abuse, on the same level as denying them social contact or nutrition, and for the same reasons.