ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a brief mention of Australian education policy. It discusses the 'information superhighway' and the ways in which education is being inscribed within it. The chapter considers the implications of the information superhighway for education and, by implication, education policy and theory. Technologising education is part of the National Strategy for New Communications Networks, which arose from the report Networking Australia's Future by the Broadband Services Expert Group. Global markets and global technologies have significant implications for nation-states. New technologies interact with economic matters to help facilitate trans-national enterprises, the operations of which challenge the capacity of nation-states to control their own economies and cultural and natural environments. The voices of cultural commentators and lobby groups are usually muted in the mass media. Children are strongly positioned both as the objects and subjects of the technological utopia and, as an industry spokesman says, 'the Trojan Horse of the home market'.
