Something you used to do is being done by someone else. Toregas, in his luncheon keynote, also discussed the necessity of cross-jurisdictional collaboration and cooperation, saying that smaller is better, and that collaborative networks are growing increasingly important. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. In addition, education is no longer a limited process designed to shoot a student into a slowly changing world in which he or she finds lifetime employment with one or two firms. Today education is a lifelong activity and competence is a moving target.
Education is conducted in unusual places at odd times.
Libraries, bookstores, magazines and other information pipelines are nearly unlimited in variety and scope. Cable television channels alone carry fascinating information on history, zoology, drama, forensics, meteorology, government, painting, writing, home repair, cooking and a multitude of skills and hobbies. Alisoun Moore, CIO of Maryland, put it in personal terms. Kids that do use the library, she said, are using library computers to access the Internet for homework. Phil Burgess, fellow of the Center for the New West said that while technology has shaped the world, some technologies didn't shape the world because there were no big ideas to go along with them.