The Future of Learner Societies in an Age of Non-human Learners

Ingrid Lange

The Future by Design Final Manifesto

5.20.2016

Learning Societies

—education should extend beyond formal learning into informal learning

—learning as an ‘activity, not a place’

—learning is decentralised and deregulated

—systems facilitate the ability for lifelong learning in the individual

—socialization of individual lifelong learning

Adults

Children

Expanding Ecosystem of Learners

Adults Algorithms

Children

Expanding Ecosystem of Learners

Adults Algorithms

Children

Expanding Ecosystem of Learners

Adults Algorithms

Children

Expanding Ecosystem of Learners

Adults Algorithms

Children

Expanding Ecosystem of Learners

1927

Maria, Metropolis Ava, Ex Machina

2015

Mythology of AI

Reality of AI

Curated Ads

Inferences Summit (Cortana knows a lot about us)

AI Scry: iPhone App that “understands reality”

MythologyTechnology

Stephen Hawking

PESSIMISTS OPTIMISTS

Alan Turing

Elon Musk Samuel Arbesman

Bill Gates Richard Nisbett

Ray Kurtzweil Joi Ito

1954

B.F. Skinner’s Teaching Machine

SCENARIO 01

End to privatization and capitalization of

education—

Education is “free”

Data = new currency

Education is paid for with personal data

A central cooling plant in Google’s Douglas County, Georgia, data center.

Photo: Google/Connie Zhou

End to standardized testing

Emergence of ambient technology

Smart walls?!Smart furniture?!

Finally

Deterministic consequences

SCENARIO 02

A Call for Global Digital Salon Culture

Existing Local Tech-enabled Learning Societies

MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group

A Call for Global Digital Salon Culture

19th century 2015

John Brockman (Edge.org) with a circle of the scientists of the Edge network

Salon Culture

Translation technology

Dissolving of “filter bubbles”

Global learning society enabled by digital salon culture

Thanks

The Future by Design Final Manifesto

5.20.2016