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I don’t want to speak for you, but I’m guessing that your life is pretty easy.
Everything you need is handed to you, along with a few things that you might
just want. There are those who spend their whole lives holed up in their
modules, connected to VR or the network. Dayfruit growers provide them with
food. Drones deliver their feedstock. Their electricity and water is piped in,
and their waste is shipped out. Their personal robot does all their work. I’m
not criticising people who live like this. This is just a preamble so you’ll
understand what purpose Skilldome serves. So many things that you may or may
not take for granted were either not cheap for our ancestors, hardly
available, or outright didn’t exist. Obviously, different time periods came
with different limitations, and over the years, there are skills that we’ve
lost to automation, and engineered simplicity. I’m not saying that you’ll
become a better person if you learn how to drive a car with your hands and
feet. I’m just telling you that the skill is something that this dome offers.
You can also learn how to churn butter, command an animal to plow a field, or
write something down with a pencil and paper. It’s hard to describe what these
activities are, since there’s such a broad range, but it’s basically
everything that people used to have to do to be productive that we don’t
anymore. To be sure, there are some things that still hold some merit in our
world. You might not have access to a medpod or healing nanites, even today,
so knowing how to perform first aid is one of those skills that some people
have maintained anyway. But for those of us whose minds it didn’t cross to do
it before, if you’re on Castlebourne, come on down and take a class. As far as
skills that are less practical in the synthetic era go, like stuffing mail in
envelopes, or coding a program in an obsolete computer language called C++,
you can do it just for fun, or to have a greater appreciation for modern
living. Or come up with your own reasons. There are no requirements on what
you have to do when you come here, but if you do come, and you do choose a
particular skill, it is asked of you to use the tools you are given, and not
“cheat”. If you’re taking a math test, only use one of those old basic
calculators that they will provide you with. Don’t just ask an AI to do it for
you. That defeats the purpose. I actually saw a guy do this, which was so
stupid, because no one was making him take this otherwise pointless test. What
you get out of coming here is entirely up to you. Ain’t nobody gonna hold your
hand. Nor should they have to.
