ABSTRACT
Our view of how the world will be in 2000 AD depends to a large extent on our view of whether world resources are being depleted too quickly or not, and whether we think the population is growing too fast. Forecasts regarding new information technology are risky, because of rapid evolution of the technology itself and because of powerful forces behind this evolution. Education (and society) will exploit new information technology selectively, not universally and indiscriminately. Many traditional values, such as personal contact between teacher and learner, will be upheld. Demands, from parents and employers, for students to learn about new information technology, through it and in preparation for it in their adult lives, will no doubt increase slowly at first but then more quickly. Children and adolescents will themselves seek out new information technology, perhaps by-passing the schools. Even adults will turn more and more towards it for work and leisure.
