Educational technology and new forms of industrial organisation will open up home education and self-education in ways never dreamt of. The last decade of learning by computer will seern like a kindergarten compared with the capabilities of the future"edtech" Holographic forms, remote real time access to interactive and intelligent computers, immediate feedback on performance these are the future. Educationists will become facilitators, coordinators. adjuncts to artificial intelligence which will undertake all the mundane and routine educational tasks. The educationists will concentrate on shaping human potential, not just keeping discipline among students. The classroom of the late 20th century is already a dinosaur and it will become a fossil in the history databases of the next 100 years. Like the dinosaur. education will evolve. Just as the dinosaurs are widely believed to have changed into birds, so the lumbering giants which occupy a third of the state's budget will leam to fly and leave their skeletons school buildings and university campuses far behind