I couldn't agree more Harold - but it's a frightening thing to see the two sketches together; it in fact renders education useless - unless you want to become a machine or move to a outsourcing country

In http://www.martijnlinssen.com/2010/01/cloud-and-social-tectonic-plates-of-it.html I sketch the squeeze between Social and Cloud, where Social creates a lot of work for complicated human processes (I consider complication an unnecessary add-on to complexity) so there is hope, I think

But, in the meantime, the simple tasks will get automated, if they're any static they'll disappear in the infrastructural layer of the Cloud.
The hard-to-automate but static, labour-intensive repetitive tasks will be outsourced (with the dynamic tasks, among which i count core-business or business-critical processes, to stay "at home")
Chaotic is what we'll initially see in Social, where SCRM looks like the first fish to take the bait

And yes, our education system will have to change too. I'm starting to wonder why everything has to so radically change now: organisations, massmedia, educations. Not that I regret it, but how massive is this movement? Aren't we redefining Human Everything as we know it?