The intellectuals plan to ensure that future generations are intellectually superior is to replace the effort and thinking required to actually learn reading writing and arithmetic with computers and other technology.

Otherwise, they are taking the work and the requirement to think critically out of the requirement for education.
When technology is used as a substitute to bypass the effort to learn and to think the end result will be unlimited, uncontrolled ignorance. We now have more information available to us than anytime in history. BUT, our educational system cannot teach the young to count change.
The intellectuals ruining the education system refuse to accept one fact: When you tell Johnny something 1000 times and he still doesn't understand it’s not Johnny thats the slow learner
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day, but if you can teach them to learn by creating curiosity, they will continue the learning process as long as they live." Clay P. Bedford.