A technological projection should not just consider the technologies that might be available or soon available for school education. Equally importantly it would explore the changing community and work environment that these students need to be equipped for, both in skills and in affective readiness. The current state of the art has moved from purpose-built computer labs and PCs scattered lightly amongst classrooms to carts of notebook PCs with a networked printer, a wireless LAN hub and battery recharging unit. This allows the students to use the notebooks freely within a learning environment built for other purposes. Of course there are still both foundational and transitional difficulties.
Battery life is still too short.
Bandwidth is still too narrow. Technophobic tachers and students still have too many opportunities to feel ostracised from the educational technologies. Theft and damage are not insignificant risks. Even lumbering the quite heavy carts around some school campuses is a major problem. And organising timetables for their use is hardly spontaneous learning at its best.