Brand's experience as founder and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog and the Whole Earth Review helped him to understand and ap- preciate technology. It is this perspective of technology which allows him to interpret the predictions of faculty and students of the Media Lab. These predictions involve how technologies will interact and direct the fu- ture. This chapter explains Seymour Papert's experiment with a school of the future. More than simply a computer-rich environment, the Hennigan School embodies an alternative learning philosophy.
Children are en- couraged to guess, explore, experiment and imitate.
Learning rather than teaching is the focus. A powerful graphics- orientated programming language, Logo rewards the user quickly. This provides Papert's philosophy with a platform. Of extreme interest to technology educa- tors is the addition of LEGO to the Logo learning system. The discovery learning potential of the system as a means of involving stu- dents in problem solving and higher order thinking is foremost in Papert's mind.