Modern communication technologies make it absolutely unnecessary, and indeed, in large measure, completely counterproductive, for learners to go to a central place to access information … While learning will abound, school, as places, as buildings, will disappear.
Predictor: Dator, Jim
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 speech at the Pacific Association for Cooperative Education Conference, Hawaii, titled “Linkages Between Work and Education? The Perspective of a Futurist,” futurist Jim Dator says:”Modern communication technologies make it absolutely unnecessary, and indeed, in large measure, completely counterproductive, for learners to go to a central place to access information. Information now can and does flow into people’s homes, cars, eyes and ears from any and everywhere in the world. While some of this flowing, and overflowing, is individually processed, much can be and also is shared and compared among spacially- (and often temporally-) dispersed learners bound together in electronic virtual communities.The consequences of this trend? While learning will abound, school, as places, as buildings, will disappear.”
Biography:Jim Dator was a futurist who is credited with founding the first Future Studies program in 1971. He has been director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies at the University of Hawaii. (Futurist/Consultant.)
Date of prediction: January 18, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Pacific Association for Cooperative Education Conference, Hawaii, Jan. 18, 1994
Title, headline, chapter name: Linkages Between Work and Education? The Perspective of a Futurist
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/dator/unions/linkages.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney