In the case of education, it means a student is able to log onto a computer to learn about whatever he or she is interested in learning about at that particular point in time. Puberty is the rite of passage that shifts people from docile observers of information to active participants in society. Today that rite of passage happens at about age 13 or 14. Because we don't want people in the work force, we keep students in school longer. But we're also keeping them in the same kind of learning environment they had when they were 10, and after puberty most people want to be treated as adults.
Computers can also take the awkwardness out of learning.
The computer doesn't care. You don't mind that it takes you 40 times to get it right with a computer - and it takes the embarrassment out of learning. The computer, because it doesn't care, is in a sense the most caring learning environment. Humans, because they care, at some point show frustration, fear, or bias. They're never going to be able to sublimate their own egos to the learner's ego, but a machine has no ego.