Imagine the year 2035. There are no more brick-and-mortar schools or universities. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made education universally accessible and completely free.

To learn a new skill or earn a degree, one simply voices a prompt. Within moments, through AI-powered smart glasses, you are transported into a fully immersive virtual classroom – perhaps studying astrophysics aboard a space station, taught by none other than Albert Einstein himself. You choose the subject, the instructor – even fictional or historical figures – and the setting. And all of it is free, on demand, and personalized.

This is not science fiction but a highly plausible scenario within the next decade. At the current pace of AI development, combined with virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and platforms like Meta, the idea of physical classrooms, universities and even human teachers could become obsolete and redundant.

Let’s rewind to today. We stand on the brink of the most dramatic transformation in human history. AI, quantum computing, robotics, genetic engineering, nanotechnology and space exploration are converging, creating an age of exponential progress. Yet, today's AI, impressive as it seems, is still in its infancy. It's comparable to the internet in 1992, before Google, Amazon, or Apple became household names.

Consider this: it took personal computers two decades to reach 30 per cent penetration in the US population. Television took 12 years, smartphones seven years, smart speakers four years, but generative AI has........

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