ABSTRACT
The challenge for this chapter is to speculate on the changes that new technology will bring to higher education. It is a task to be approached with great care, as technology, that ‘great growling engine of change’, as Toffler (1970) memorably described it, has a way of continually surprising us. It is reasonable to expect that the potential of new technology to change the way we teach and do research will be realized eventually in some way. The question is, whether it will be universities doing it on their own terms, or whether it will be more successfully exploited by others first.
