Mobile Phones, Networking Sites, Emails, IPhones, Sat Nav, IPods, all of these products play such a huge part in our lives in 2009! With the upgrade culture constantly reinventing and improving the products we are already subjected to, in ten years time the boundaries will be pushed even further.
It’s hard to predict the future, but I think with the ideas that have been explored in the idea of Web 3.0 and the emphasis on E-learning, the student in year 2020 will be a lot more technological based. I believe that there will probably more emphasis on E-learning and using computers in Lecture times. As the library is already in the process of uploading normal books into E-Books, as a student you will probably have access to the whole library catalogue via the internet, giving less reason for actual physical books in the library.
However with the advancement of technology, technophile students will be satisfied but it will also marginalize other groups, e.g. neo-luddites and some digital immigrants. Meaning that the upgrade culture is going to have an effect on various people in society, friendships may suffer due to less IRL contact and companies may suffer because fewer books will be produced etc. These are all extreme ideas about what could happen to a technophile student, but with the increase in technology and the decrease in IRL actions this could be the outcome!
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