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Remembrance of Futures Past, or Where’s my conveyer belt sidewalk?

Posted on December 18, 2022 by geoffcain

We are rapidly approaching that wondrous time of year when pundits congratulate themselves for being right on technology. I used to make pronouncements about technology quite frequently because I was an avid reader of Popular Science and a couple of … Continue reading →

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The Future of Education: The Class of 1989

Posted on August 3, 2021 by geoffcain

This article is reproduced here for annotation purposes and is from an archived copy at www.archive.org. Basically what I would like to accomplish here is to apply some of the ideas that Audrey Watter’s applied to Skinner in her book … Continue reading →

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A Brief History of the Future of Education

Posted on April 24, 2019 by geoffcain

This was a presentation that I did back in 2014 from the DET/CHE conference that I accidentally found on the web . “The presenter will review the history of how education and technology has been viewed in the popular press … Continue reading →

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A Brief History of the Future of Education

Posted on December 5, 2014 by geoffcain

This is the presentation I did at DET/CHE on how the future is represented in media reflecting the promises and fears of technology with some of the implications for our vision of education: This is a subject I have been … Continue reading →

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