Technological Change

Abstract

In Part V, we go beyond past experience and perceptions of the present. Forecasting in a rapidly changing technical field such as computing is perhaps dangerous, and predictions of political and social change are certainly foolhardy. Nevertheless, the issue of obsolescence is so important for computer education that it must be dealt with. This chapter dwells on technological changes, relates them to the four popular Rationales and shows how the changes may influence use of computers in schools. The final chapter takes up economic issues, again with regard to the Rationales, and considers whether dependency and inequity are inevitable in Third World computer education.