High Technology
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To support knowledge based learning for an innovation society, a handful of technologies is listed below. Innovative and leapfrog organizations must design and build institutional flexibility to rapidly adopt/incorporate/evolve these technologies into transformative practices rather than using them to support old practices.
- Tiny terabyte disk drives; pocketable optical and quantum computers operating at room temperatures; circuitry woven into clothing or sprayed onto skin; early implants; large percentage of flat surfaces receive painted-on interactive displays; heads-up delivery of high-resolution images to the retina; automatic language and dialect translations; obsolescence of the keyboard; 'nano-marketing' to individual consumers worldwide; projections of the eclipse of homo sapiens by a wide range of intelligent technological and genomic varieties of humanity.
- Jobs whirl into and out of existence quickly, sometimes overnight.
- More and more, human work creates jobs that are carried out by automata. Traditional separations of living, learning and working have vanished, as the same technologies are used in all three domains. Learning is experiential, through simulations and direct, real-world involvement. Performance and innovation are paramount.
- Humans are expected to move forward, creating low-cost, highly efficient automated processes in their wake. Innovative knowledge workers make up perhaps 90% of the work force. Intelligent machines, capable of competing with innovative Knowledge Workers, are on the 20-year horizon. The individual resume replaces the transcript.
