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The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century: the Impact on Education and Society - Sponsored by Campus Management Corporation, an EDUCAUSE Gold Partner

Monday, October 09, 2006 | 9:00PM–9:00PM
Session Type: Resources
The availability of vast knowledge on the Web, useful search engines, high-quality open Web courseware, and increasingly effective computer-assisted instruction provide widespread and inexpensive access to education. Soon students at any age will be able to access the best education in the world at any time and from any place.

The nature of education will change when humans merge with nonbiological intelligence. We don’t yet have communication ports in our biological brains to download the interneuronal connection and neurotransmitter patterns that represent our learning--a profound limitation of the biological paradigm we now use for our thinking that we will overcome.

Presenters

  • Ray Kurzweil

    Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies