A choose-your-own-adventure for Bay Area parents of today’s sixth graders. Five decisions. Fourteen years. One future.
Your child is in sixth grade. The world they’ll enter at twenty-five is being built right now — by AI researchers, policymakers, and companies racing to define what work, learning, and success look like in 2040. You have a say in how they get there. If you start paying attention today.
Traditional track, specialized STEM program, or a new model of learning that barely exists yet. By 8th grade, the path starts to narrow.
Stay the course — or jump?
Assistant, collaborator, or competition. How your child learns to work alongside AI in the next six years will define what kind of work they can do.
Embrace it early — or wait?
The most expensive place to raise a child. The densest node of future-building on Earth. The network effects are real — and so is the cost.
Stay in — or get out?
This is a live project — the decisions, branches, and outcomes are being researched and written. Check back soon.