I could not get past the first paragraph of the article. The author has some serious issues to work out. Technology is accelerating learning in ways we can't predict. Schools are adapting, albeit slowly, to the new technology. But the real revolution is not in technology, but in technique. Legacy pedagogy is showing its age. Teachers are going to move from being dispensers of information to being facilitators of knowledge acquisition.

There are no reel changes anymore in commercial theaters, haven't had them for a long time. All of the reels are spliced together onto a single giant platter. After the screening run, they are all cut up again and shipped in separate reel cans.

Worst form factor ever.

OK, I doubt that many slashdotters, who are typically Libertarian-leaning, will be able to hear what I'm saying. But here is is anyway: free-market fundamentalism is foolish and greedy. It's what got us into trouble with the current economic meltdown. Repeating the mantra "the free market will solve everything" is really very similar to belief in the second coming of Jesus, fairies, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Sadly, we cannot trust government to do the right thing (whatever that is), but neither can we trust the free market. And by "free market," I mean obnoxiously large and powerful corporations. I would rather take my chances with the government; at least there's a tiny bit of accountability there. They've done some good things in the past, such as abolishing slavery and setting minimum wages. Without government intervention, the sacred "free market" would still use the blood of slaves to oil the engines of industry. Now it's just overseas wage slavery, which is something of an improvement, I guess.

I'm still using Eudora too... after all of these years. 13 years I think. WinXP64 currently.

It's a well-known fact that the limit of US copyright is always at least the age of Mickey Mouse plus one year. It's kind like Moore's Law for copyright attorneys.