To prepare students for a world so saturated with technology, it has arguably never been more important to speculate on the possibilities of our future, and how we can prepare for it. In business, science and education, we are now continually searching for clues about the future of artificial intelligence. In October 2006, I had the opportunity to listen to computer scientist and inventor Ray Kurzweil at the EDUCAUSE conference as he spoke about “The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Education and Society.” The future-facing ideas he shared back then still have relevance to education and our daily lives, and I’d like to highlight some of them.
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