Especially due to massive low-cost computer clouds and nearly limitless communications networks connecting them to us, culture will irreversibly change and will change the intellectual ecology of the earth. The brain that made man special over all the other creatures has created a networked brain about whose magnitude and consequences we can only speculate.
This growing Internet brain will offer any kind of instant data and apparent solutions to problems. But for humans to maintain their independence, and personal programs of achievement, education must emphasize that truth is the important goal of the searches and not feel-good satisfaction.
