What is technology going to be like in the future?...

The way we are going just now, I think anything is possible!
There has been so many predictions about the future of technology and many believe that the people will live longer because of advances in medicine through technology and what will be possible. Also, there will be less carbon footprint because of advances in car technology and technology as a whole. For education, children will rely on computers and electronics that we can't imagine just now, and teachers will be a mere supervisor rather than a facilitator and inspiration for these children because the technology they use will be their inspiration. This is what I believe!

There is a strong belief that the technology is going to somehow save children from impending doom like the laptop in the movie ‘Independence Day’.  There is a belief that a modern citizen has to have an understanding of technology to be able to function, and to be collectively in control of the development of society that is increasingly driven by technology (McCormick, 1999).




There is so many opportunities for the primary classroom in the future of technology, Gibbs(1997), in Sherson(1999), states that if these innovations happen (some that already have), virtual classrooms will become reality, 'Computers exchanging video calls as commonly as e-mail.  Three-dimensional windows that open into virtual worlds instead of virtual scrolls.  Machines that speak and respond to human languages as well as their own.  Personal "agent" 
programs that haggle for concert tickets, arrange blind dates and winnow useful information from the chaff of daily news.  And everything, from our medical records to our office files to the contents of our refrigerators, hypertextually linked via the great global network.'  (page 6)


On the date of the paper, (1999) it is clear that people have had predicitions for the future of technology for many many years and some are becoming a reality. Also, if these were the predictions 13 years ago and these technological advances are becoming reality today, what is technology going to be like in the next 13 years? This is a little insight into what could be our day in 2020....


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