Thursday, November 30, 2006

“In just 15 years, we’ll begin to see the merger of human and computer intelligence that ultimately will enable people to live forever. At least that’s the prediction of author and futurist Ray Kurzweil.”

Too good to be true? Check out this article.

“Kurzweil isn’t writing science fiction. In fact, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, a robotics director at Carnegie Mellon University, an MIT professor, and a physicist have all endorsed his book. He has received the National Medal of Technology and the Lemelson-MIT prize. The directors of the National Institute of Health have asked him to speak to their members. Kurzweil says he’s simply looking back and measuring the computational progress the human race has made over the last century and then projecting that same line of progress forward into the near future.”

In the fall of 2007, those entering kindergarten will be graduating in the year 2020 when a number of the technological innovations spoken of by Kurzweil may be reality. How will those kindergartners be prepared for that future? What role will their schooling play in that preparation?

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