It was always in the cards. At one time a high-school degree was advanced, then mandatory, then college was minimum, now masters, soon phd's then multiple phd's. The issue is physics, the universe is too complex, see the three-body problem [0] (if the entire universe consisted of just 3 particles, that would already be too much for us to calculate). Complexity explodes exponentially. We reach computation barriers immediately. Which explains why stuff like true self-driving doesn't even come close to meeting promises and similar.