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2025

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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Of The Future
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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)

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Pew Research Institute

15 Powerful Trends for Digital Life in 2025

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

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The spread of the Internet will enhance global connectivity that fosters more planetary relationships and less ignorance.

The Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and big data will make people more aware of their world and their own behavior

Augmented reality and wearable devices will be implemented to monitor and give quick feedback on daily life, especially tied to personal health

Political awareness and action will be facilitated and more peaceful change and public uprisings like the Arab Spring will emerge.

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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.

The Internet will become ‘the Internets’ as access, systems, and principles are renegotiated

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An Internet-enabled revolution in education will spread more opportunities, with less money spent on real estate and teachers.

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Dangerous divides between haves and have-nots may expand, resulting in resentment and possible violence

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.

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Pressured by these changes, governments and corporations will try to assert power—and at times succeed—as they invoke security and cultural norms.

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.

Humans and their current organizations may not respond quickly enough to challenges presented by complex networks.

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

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Foresight and accurate predictions can make a difference; ‘The best way to predict the future is to invent it'

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