It would be quite easy to offer some optimistic arguments about what education and the blending of technology will produce by, say, 1970 or 1980. One could start with the notion that computer-assisted instruction (properly and educationally initialed CAI ) will replace teachers and solve most of our educational problems. That such a pursuit has become a popular pastime can be best demonstrated by reviewing some of the current professional literature. But panaceas do not work. Yes, the new technology has discovered that education is big and a rapidly changing business; no, the impact of technology on education will not be as rapid as many people suppose.
Change in education is more apt to be evolutionary than revolutionary because:
For these reasons, most of the schools of 1970 through 1980 will still look much like they do today.
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