Schools, Colleges, Universities and on-site training all are part of Information Transfer and Technology. Information Technology is the central enterprise of our society.. IT information transfer, computers and telecommunication is a bigger part of the economy than the auto industry, even all of transportation, construction or even government. Traditional models of teaching and learning based on lectures, books, libraries and labs is changing into a life-long process of "learning to learn". Careers are dependent on the constant need to gather information, sort it, find what you need in the jungle out there and apply new methods to new problems.

One of the reasons for economic growth without inflation is because there has been a major shift in the means of production and distribution. Traditional economic models based on physical assets and goods ( agriculture, mining, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ) factory utilization, inventory miss the changing picture of reality. Even The Federal Reserve (Greenspan ) has noticed the shift in economic activity. They feel productivity of IT is having a important effect but aren't sure how IT effects the basic economic structure.

The means of production are now intellectual, value is distribution by services such as educational, medical, financial, design, media, telecommunications, electrical, and involve global relationships. The shift is from "objects" to "forms", from things to concepts and ideas. A big shift, example, best explained by Fritjoe Capra in physics and Kevin Kelly in Biology Living.htm see also book.htm

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IT just arrives in different places and minds at different times. The future is driven by technology and the social effects of technology such as agriculture, cars, planes, boats, building, banks, books, and computers. Networks of computers collected over the WWW is as important as any technology in the past and has major impacts on all our lives.

Some sites and people are into the future NOW They can report back to the rest of us what IT is like .

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