The mindcraft economy will replace degrees and diplomas with precise instruments that certify attainment of competency. Corporate teams linked by “groupware” networks will give little or no premium to what you did in school 15 years ago, but they will be quite interested in what knowledge, skills, and talents you can bring to solving specific problems right now.
Predictor: Perelman, Lewis J.
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article he wrote for Wired magazine, Lewis J. Perelman addresses the future of education in an age of digital networks in the form of an open letter to the nation’s information industry executives. He writes:”In the new economy, where mindcraft replaces handicraft as the main form of work, HL [hyperlearning] makes obsolete the teaching, testing and failure on which academic credentialism rests. Automated instructional systems build real-time, continuous assessment and feedback into the learning processes that are ever more embedded in the many tools of the smart environment. The mindcraft economy will replace degrees and diplomas with precise instruments that certify attainment of competency. Corporate teams linked by ‘groupware’ networks will give little or no premium to what you did in school 15 years ago, but they will be quite interested in what knowledge, skills, and talents you can bring to solving specific problems right now. The new, high-tech processes of certification will identify the nature and degree of specific abilities a worker may have, and then offer the most efficient learning resources needed to address any shortcomings.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: School’s Out: The Hyperlearning Revolution Will Replace Public Education
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.01/hyperlearning_pr.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Stotler, Larry