No doubt this will all happen, but it won't turn education into a sunny summer weekend in utopia. Computers and telecommunications offer some solutions to present education problems, but they raise new problems as well. Operating from home, some students go online with little desire or incentive to study systematically. Computers will eventually take over much of the repetitive work of teaching. But online students will still need plenty of direct contact with live teachers for guidance, advice, and encouragement.
Many students start exploring the Internet only to find much of it is a toxic-waste dump.
For some users, it's just a convenient source of pornographic pictures and text. Not all are healthy. Some push neo-Nazi propaganda. Unsavory cranks and bigots dominate other newsgroups. Good educational material does exist on the Internet, but it's often hard to find and harder to use.