Perelman uses the term hyperlearning to stand for all of the existing technology that enables students to learn on their own. In Perelman's view, such technology will soon prove so attractive to students and parents that they will withdraw students from public schools and allow them to work at home or enroll in alternative institutions. We know the fable about the rabbit and the tortoise. The rabbit is faster and looks better running, but is easily distracted. The tortoise stays the course, trudges along, and eventually wins.
Schools are like tortoises.
They may change slowly, but they make progress. Outsiders may criticize them, or even force them to change in a particular direction, but left again on their own, the turtles proceed on their own path at a comfortable pace. In this scenario, schools will add technology as they can afford it, but the funds provided will be too small to make a major difference in how schools do their work. In short, five to ten years from now, schools will be very similar to the schools we have today, except that there will be a greater use of technology. It is possible that the American public will decide that American schools are their most precious public asset and that they have been neglected far too long.