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No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher’s dirty looks
Alice Cooper, title song of School’s Out, 1972.

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‘It was much pleasanter at home,’ thought poor Alice, ‘when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole - and yet - and yet - it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life!’
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, [...]

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There won’t be schools in the future … I think the computer will blow up the school. That is, the school defined as something where there are classes, teachers running exams, people structured in groups by age, following a curriculum all of that. The whole system is based on a set of structural concepts that [...]

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The democratization of technology has made NGOs more powerful and terrorism more lethal. The United States must adjust its mental framework to this new landscape. Our post-9/11 focus has been on the use of hard power - the top board - when the problems we face stem from transnational issues on the bottom board. One [...]

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