Abolishing credentialism by implementing hyperlearning in the workplace, commercializing learning through a new growth industry, and demanding real choice in learning environments are all processes that can take place in the free market – independent of the government.
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:”The hyperlearning revolution is inevitable: It is being driven by the unstoppable, on-rushing advance of knowledge-age technology. The businesses that seize the HL initiative today are the ones most likely to attain leadership in the new economy. Revolutionary changes in American history have almost always come from the grassroots up, not from Washington down. Abolishing credentialism by implementing hyperlearning in the workplace, commercializing learning through a new growth industry, and demanding real choice in learning environments are all processes that can take place in the free market – independent of the government. So there you have it. Hyperlearning offers information industry leaders one of the most rewarding opportunities any business can hope for: solving some of the world’s most critical social problems, building the key industry of a new age, opening the floodgates to a worldwide economic boom, and, in the process, creating billions of dollars in new sales and profits for your stockholders.”
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