Tools change. Agency lasts.
Preparing young people for the future cannot mean guessing which programming language or application will matter most. Tools expire. The capacity to learn, make, and revise travels further.
At Autodesk, the work reached a technical community of 100 million people and 20 million educators worldwide. The public argument became an essay and an ISTE talk: technical skill matters most when it expands what a person believes they can change.
Design for participation
Making turns abstract possibility into evidence. A model, circuit, or printed object says: an idea can leave the page, encounter constraints, and still become real.
That is why access matters. The point is not merely to train more software users. It is to give more people the tools, confidence, and opportunity to participate in shaping what comes next.
Open the field note
The Most Important Intelligence Isn't Artificial - the Autodesk Learn Lab essay behind the argument, later delivered as a thought-leadership talk at ISTE.