"New technologies have condemned us to be intelligent." (French Philosopher Michel Serres). In his view, new technologies and the Internet in the 21st century will impact on mankind in the likes of the mid-East 2000 years ago and the Renaissance (!). What also stuck o me as I listened to his 1-hour presentation (http://interstices.info/display.jsp?id=c_33030), is how we now "externalize" our reflection and thinking, just like we are doing here, now. A cognitive revolution generated by an information revolution... Will schools and curriculum developers seize this and work to transform education fast enough to diminish the ever-widening gap with 21st century society? Not sure... But we can try :-)