…The day after tomorrow society will have no place for anyone who is as ignorant as the average, mid-twehtieth-century college graduate, who will be as lost and helpless then as a Pilgrim father would be if he were dumped suddenly in Times Square during the rush hour. The greatest single industry of the future is education […] For every man education will have to be a process that continues all his life. We’ve got to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40, and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20? The main social problem of the future is going to be that of raising the school-leaving age to approximately 120.”—
http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/292/1/clarke.pdf
Wow. (Arthur C. Clarke writing on 2001 in 1970.)
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