In class today I watched these three videos, part of an (incredibly cheesy) "classroom of the future" video. Did I mention how incredibly cheesy they were? So cheesy.
They were pretty interesting, though, in terms of how much they got right. We do have video chat; Skype on computers or tablets or phones. IPhones also have a female-voiced search robot, but Siri has a lot less artificial intelligence. It'll be a while until a computer can determine what's the best database for you to use. We do have online databases, though, just like the video predicted. They may be more complicated, but they are incredibly useful for students.
What didn't they get right? Well, there's definitely no system of video chatting when you're home sick. There's the technology for it, sure, but they seem to have vastly overestimated the budget that the classroom of the future would actually have. That might be for the best, though. You really wouldn't want to look right into a teenage boy's bedroom, would you?
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