Hi Harold, I am grateful to Dennis Callahan for directing me to this post. The 'future of learning' point is an interesting one: I would like to suggest that the future of learning really resembles its past, whilst the same cannot be said of work; that while the former is a beneficiary of technological change the latter is a casualty. People have always learned as they go, from the people they are connected to. Whilst technology has amplified informal learning and formal learning obscured it - its essential nature has not changed. For sure there are emergent phenomena. With work things are different I feel: the subversion of hierarchy arises through the emergence of entirely new ways to orchestrate collective activity, and the relative devaluation of knowledge within a system which tends towards all knowledge being openly shared. I can see how work and learning might seem to resemble each other if we are talking about formal learning: since this is also a top-down, directed activity (and agree that the conventional forms of both are doomed).