"There is something about taking the time to think ... and the aim of this site is to share with you my thoughts as we all move forward into the times ahead. My old blog site at True At The Time I Said It hasn't been updated for a year, yet (surprising to me) it is still getting a regular stream of visitors. But it had become a place that needed a facelift if nothing else. I wanted a new site to start looking at, and sharing ideas and thoughts about the really important changes that are coming to our society in the very near future. When Carly Fiorina was CEO at HP, Tom Friedman interviewed her for his book "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century". She made an observation that has stuck with me these past 10 years or so, and which I constantly recall whenever I see one of those "wow moments" (those moments when you sense something big has just happened). She said, in the context of development of hardware and software, something like "You know Tom, if you think the past 25 years (1978 - 2003) have been the IT revolution, then you just don't get it. All the last 25 years has been is the forging and sharpening of the tools for the real revolution. And that revolution will happen in the next 25 years." She was almost right. What she didn't realise was that the revolution will never quite be here. It will always be "just around the corner" because those tools are constantly being reforged and resharpened and they are inventing new tools that will in turn create new tools - and these new tools in turn will bring "the next revolution" at an ever increasing pace. To the point that we will always be in a state of "constant revolution". This is hard to fathom - at least for those of us who have experienced a significant portion of our lives pre Netscape Navigator (v 1.0 released in December 1994). We are on the verge of something incredible happening in our lifetime. Maybe several incredible somethings. So, that's why this new blog. A place to look at what the future may hold. A place to try and make connections. A place to try and offer some suggestions for how the "education system" might proactively adapt. Ultimately, it's a place to reflect forward.
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