ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. Current digital technologies, like search engines and social networking sites, seem to be in some respect quite similar to other technologies in that they, too, like shoes and bridges, are concerned with nearness, which is in their case not a by-product of their use but the very thing they instantiate. Education's responsibility in this respect is translated first into concern for the cultivation of various modes of nearness and of creative types of connectedness that may potentially allow future citizens to create different discretisations and new schematisations of nearness. Second, this concern is also to be transfigured into the cultivation of the claim of political rights that demand access to and literate awareness of that which forms the polis and the political milieu. Third, education needs to view with scepticism the metaphors that construct the human-technological relations.
