In this chapter employing an autoethnographic approach drawn from decades of experience, I illustrate how change is nothing new in spite of a technological revolution that renders old skills and experience redundant and replaces them with newer versions that subsequently will become obsolete. Whilst drawing on ancient texts to make the case, it is argued that the new world is the old world in a different coat that always threatens people with marginalisation. Whilst education provision continues to be subject to the tides and times of change, advances in technology offer a unifying efficiency illusion amidst stratification. Technology is a servant to innovation that arises from an identified problem needing a solution. Some herald artificial intelligence to become the thinking master of practice. Its seductive allure as the spirit of the age is counter to the liberating ability to think, to process information, be critical and develop meaning that leads to understanding and translates via wisdom into action. Such actual intelligence as a special quality of humans is needed more than ever in the face of an artificial substitutes. The paradox of our age is that knowledge increases and discriminating understanding decreases but actual intelligence of independent thinking will always prevail because that is to be human.