Computers connected to the highway will help teachers monitor, evaluate, and guide student performance. Teachers will continue to give homework, but soon their assignments will include hypertext references to electronic resource material. Students will create their own links and use multimedia elements in their homework, which will then be submitted electronically on a diskette or across the highway.
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “The Road Ahead,” Microsoft CEO Bill Gates writes:ÒComputers connected to the highway will help teachers monitor, evaluate, and guide student performance. Teachers will continue to give homework, but soon their assignments will include hypertext references to electronic resource material. Students will create their own links and use multimedia elements in their homework, which will then be submitted electronically on a diskette or across the highway.”
Biography:Bill Gates, the most influential technology entrepreneur of the late 20th century, was the primary author of the prediction-packed 1995 book “The Road Ahead” and is the founder and CEO of Microsoft Corporation. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: The Road Ahead (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 9: Education: The Best Investment
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 190
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne