Finding an entry point, however, is difficult. Both Shapiro and Naisbitt pointed out that many technological innovations manifested themselves in consumer technology and entertainment. Apple's iMac computers with their dazzling colours and simplified operations have made them bestsellers to first-time computer buyers. Nokia cell phones and their multi-coloured jackets make technology fashionable. Swatch watches combine reliable technological time-keeping with outrageous fashion statements.
Technology can provide access to information and perhaps even to knowledge.
But education is more than a collection of facts. John Polanyi, Nobel Prize-winning chemist from the University of Toronto, said that learning depends on narrative. Isaac Newton's story about gravity emerged when he was able to take some facts and create a reasonable and understandable narrative. Later, Albert Einstein enlarged on Newton's story of gravity. Inevitably, others will enrich that story further.