ABSTRACT
More than a decade ago, The Washington Post featured editorials by Lewis J. Perelman, Hugh Kenner, and Neil Postman on “The New Technology: Three Views.” (1992) All three experts stressed that schooling was in trouble and that computer technology alone would not improve schooling anymore than print technology improved it. Beyond that, however, the three prognosticators took very different stands about the best relationship between schooling and technology. Perelman believed that technology could (and should) replace our current systems of education by “transforming the whole modern economy” through “hyperlearning,” which would integrate artificial intelligences of all kinds with functions of the human brain:
For Perelman, technology was the way to integrate the multiple types of knowledge necessary for learning.
