I read this one back in 2013 and I’m sure there are more modern treatments (which I’d be happy to hear about) but if you want get a 1987 perspective on the failed promises of computer skill acquisition you would probably do worse than to read Dreyfus & Dreyfus’s "Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1039572.Mind_Over_Machine).

Mind Over MachineDefining the limits of computer technology, the authors…Goodreads

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The paperback cover of “Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” (1987) by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. DreyfusThe cover features two overlapping pink sillouettes of human facial profiles looking up and two the right over a black background.
Figure 1. The paperback cover of “Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” (1987) by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. DreyfusThe cover features two overlapping pink sillouettes of human facial profiles looking up and two the right over a black background..
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