Kuala Lampur, Oct. 30 -- Last Thursday morning, I was sitting alone with a cup of kopi-C-kosong at the Engineering Tower, when a thought came quietly. There is one future skill that everyone needs to master:

The ability to ask the right question.

The idea came just before my 9 am class. I had been thinking about how we now use generative AI in classrooms, for everything from problem-based learning, flipped learning, and even in writing essay assignments. It reminded me of a World Economic Forum report that said 65 per cent of jobs in the future have not yet been created. That statistic used to sound like science fiction. Now it feels like a warning.

In a world where machines can generate, translate, and even imitate, the real skill wil...