{"id":1069,"date":"2020-03-27T14:48:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T18:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2020-03-27T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T18:48:33","slug":"the-future-as-it-looked-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2020\/03\/27\/the-future-as-it-looked-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"The future as it looked from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a book called <em>Values and the Future<\/em> on my shelf which I take down and read short passages from occasionally. In one article, Theodore J. Gordon offers &#8220;Forecasts of certain technological developments and their potential social consequences&#8221; from his vantage point in 1969. The prospect of <em>wide-band communication systems<\/em> suggests these possible consequences for education:<span id='easy-footnote-1-1069' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2020\/03\/27\/the-future-as-it-looked-from-the-past\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1069' title=' &lt;em&gt;Values and the Future: The impact of technological change on American values&lt;\/em&gt; (1969). Edited by Kurt Baier and Nicholas Rescher. The Free Press; Macmillan.  p. 185.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Ready and cheap availability of excellent curricula&#8230; might make education a respected and common pastime.<\/p><p>Canned lectures by eminent professors may make TV teaching superior to that in resident institutions.<\/p><p>University degrees will be extended to viewers who complete their courses solely on TV. Residency requirements may disappear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a book called Values and the Future on my shelf which I take down and read short passages from occasionally. In one article, Theodore J. Gordon offers &#8220;Forecasts of certain technological developments and their potential social consequences&#8221; from his vantage point in 1969. The prospect of wide-band communication systems suggests these possible consequences &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2020\/03\/27\/the-future-as-it-looked-from-the-past\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The future as it looked from the past&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,31],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et-cetera","tag-history","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-hf","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}