Learning, after all, begins with careful listening. Listening requires the ability to step outside your own perspective and try to imagine how another person experiences their own unique world. This requires a high degree of humility. It is the real purpose of an education and it is something that no silicon intelligence can teach us. This gives me hope that the future of academia has at least 2,400 more years to go. If we are humble enough to listen not only to each other but to other intelligent beings, we might discover new things about the world that we can’t even imagine yet.