III. The connection between generations
Legacy & Continuity
Helping knowledge, judgement and practical capability pass from one generation to the next.
Purpose
Continuity asks what deserves to endure.
When answers are readily available, the harder task is keeping the ability to think, judge and do. This area covers education in the age of AI and making sure hard-won experience is not lost between generations.
It is practical work: deciding what to teach, recording the reasoning behind decisions, and passing on skills people can use.
What it covers
Education in the age of AI
What to teach, and how, when machines can supply answers but not judgement.
Living archives
The reasoning behind decisions, hard-earned lessons, stories and practical knowledge, kept useful for whoever comes next.
Preserving experience
Capturing what experienced people know, in forms others can learn from.
Useful skills
Hands-on capabilities that keep people independent and able to build, repair and care for things.
The questions we start from
What should endure, and how.
- 01What should we teach?
- 02What must people remain capable of doing themselves?
- 03How do we develop judgement when answers are readily available?
- 04What is worth recording, and for whom?
Collaboration
Help carry it forward.
If you teach, keep records or hold knowledge worth passing on, we would value hearing from you.
We would like to hear from
- Educators
- Archivists
- Practitioners
- Craftspeople
- Families & institutions