Present voices,
future thoughts
The essays in Appendix A provide a backdrop and
roadmap to the important ideas in this document.
Seth Godin believes that the Web requires us
to stop focusing on mass communication and
instead support individual and community-speci(c
conversations so that we can focus on their goals.
Kevin Kelly describes the “universal library,” where
we move beyond being “people of the book” to
become “people of the screen.”
Thomas Friedman explains how the only path to
success in our newly flattened world is innovation...
powered by education.
Ellen Hazelkorn reflects on the challenges of
sustaining education at a time when utility and
e+ciency are driving funding and rating issues.