[yoricm]

Exactly this. This is the future.

Accelerated learning is fascinating because learning today is so inefficient. Combine that with the massive knowledge that accumulates over the years.

Elon Musks said it himself. Along with Solar Energy, Mars colonization, AI, knowledge acquisition needs to be disrupted. Something like bio-technology with transplanted chips.

Reading books is a very old way, and it doesn't scale well. Listening to podcast isn't very efficient either. Gamification has not been effective enough so far.

You can also see it in "Matrix", when training in a virtual world with a karate-training program that interacts directly with the brain. As you do when dreaming, but in an interactive way.

In the "Fifth Element", there's also a scene where Milla Jovovich (an advanced being) learn all Human History in a matter of hours/minutes with accelerated reading/watching the Internet.

I'm sure there are many other examples of people putting "accelerated learning" as one feature of the future.

(And I'm already excited to be there.)