PLATO-700: Some thoughts about technology and education

Liao:     Aren't we too fascinated with technology?

Satoru:   Perhaps. Today many people are more intimate with their gadgets than they are 
          with each other: it's a sad state of affairs.

Tim:      Isn't the best technology the human brain? Consciousness is far deeper than we imagine.

Melissa:  The brain is no longer in our heads – it's inside information networks. 
          More often than not, what's inside people's heads is curiously "brainless".

Liao:     Inside and outside – they're extensions of each other. Why create any separation?


	No question about it:
	these neural implants are first-rate.

	They access huge data banks in nanoseconds
	& filter out noise automatically.

	Imagine the knowledge of this planet in your small cranium
	available at lightening speeds.

	Imagine knowing far more than any ordinary human has imagined
	and filtering out trash you don't need.

	Ready for a hook up?
	Let our system guide you.

	Visit your PlatoTM showroom
	to discover what education really means!


Satoru: (laughing)  Huh? What education "really means"? . . . What nonsense is this?

Tim:    (nodding) Well, I can tell you the answer to that in a single word: money.


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from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A poem about educational technology and dialog about information control and art work about info-clutter
KEYWORDS:  neural implants, info-clutter, educational technology, Cyber Ministry  

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1997 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2020 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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