I would like to express my gratitude for your article in the Futurist magazine (January-February 2011).
I have long felt the inadequacy of mass education, and wished to develop a personalised learning system like the proposed SOCRAIT. Looking back in a classroom, I often lost the train of thought while my mind was distracted during a lecture even for a fraction of a second. So, I envisioned a HyperCard-based learning system with progress-bookmarks and built-in randomised quizzes and tests.
It is a myth that "technical knowledge doubles every two years". In fact, it is the amount of publication that has proliferated thanks to desktop publishing and the Internet World-Wide Web, not the real core knowledge (except biotechnology, maybe). There are lots of rephrased copies of the same thing, which I would not call "knowledge".
In any case, only about 5 % of the population is capable of critical thinking and abstract reasoning...
