In chapter seven Sherden’s book (referenced below), I came across predictions about public education for the mass, and I just couldn’t halt thinking of the education future and online education. Back warding 100 years ago, and before the internet and mobile technology, people like us (students and education seekers) were traveling thousands of miles, spend their life savings, and spend years to get educated.
With the innovations, and technological advances, and years after, others enjoyed the luxury of easier and faster travel by introducing planes, cars, ships and trains. And with some more innovation and more years later, some thought “why education doesn’t come to us?”, and the first thought was organizing education, where teachers start to be the travelers’, and the books and materials shipped, some even enjoy private education at home.
Now, and after just a short period of time, innovation and education and business and technology start to better interact together, and the teacher, the student, the book, and the network all of them offered the ultimate solution that all stay home! Today, and with the merge of the online and distant education, and with the benefits on the internet, private networks, and mobile technology, the traveler now is the education that tour to be delivered in the palm of the hands.
As for the future, with high prediction possibilities, some scientists and innovators work hard now to find ways to load brains with information. The idea is just like taking disk and loading and storing information onto your computer. From research the human brain capabilities, truing blood into brain, storing new electromagnetic signals to theses brains, one day we might go to book shop and buy a disk or a flash drive (maybe a complete course) and load it to our brains, take the exam, and there you are educated! And what can prevent that? I think it will be a matter of affordability…
References:
Sherden, W. A., “The Fortune Sellers: The Big Business of Buying and Selling Predictions.” Dec 20, 1999. Wiley publications. ISBN: 978-0471358442
Inspired by:
“The Matrix” – Movie @ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/
“Minority Report” – Movie. @ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/
“Paycheck” - Movie. @ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338337/
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