This revolution is about replacing a system that treats students as mass-produced widgets rolling off an education assembly line with one that supports a network of mentors who recognize each student as an individual and who are empowered to treat them as such (Eisenberg, p. 114 2012)
Information sharing over the Internet will be so effortlessly interwoven into daily life that it will become invisible, flowing like electricity, often through machine intermediaries
The spread of the ‘Ubernet’ will diminish the meaning of borders,and new ‘nations’ of those with shared interests may emerge and exist beyond the capacity of current nation-states to control.
Abuses and abusers will ‘evolve and scale.’ Human nature isn’t changing; there’s laziness, bullying, stalking, stupidity, pornography, dirty tricks, crime, and those who practice them have new capacity to make life miserable for others.
People will continue —sometimes grudgingly— to make tradeoffs favoring convenience and perceived immediate gains over privacy; and privacy will be something only the upscale will enjoy.
Most people are not yet noticing the profound changes today’s communications networks are already bringing about; these networks will be even more disruptive in the future