Of particular interest to us is how technology is affecting higher education. It is challenging and redefining how teachers and learners relate. What is happening is nothing less than the evolution of a fully distributed global community of empowered learners. The effect of such an all-powerful intellectual apparatus cannot now be imagined, but there can be no doubt that it will be world transforming. The distinction between evolution and design Academia has only begun to elaborate evolutionary methods of organizational learning in practice.
Human institutions evolve in a way that defies prediction, control and design.
Human beings like the illusion of control but the outworking of human destiny is beyond the comprehension of any one human being. Today's schools were defined and produced by the age of manufacturing. This now established factory model of education is shifting to a new information intensive paradigm. Such shifts do far more than parachute newfangled whizbangs into established institutions, paradigms, and power relationships. They fundamentally challenge and transform existing institutions, paradigms, and power relationships.