What's coming next???

I just finished typing my answers to our weekly discussion questions. One of the questions asked about what new technologies and developments we thought were going to have the most impact on all areas of our lives. That is a really good question. When you look at some of the things people in the past have envisioned and how they have come true in many cases, it makes you wonder if things we see in futuristic movies nowadays are ever going to happen. Jules Verne wrote about things like going to the moon in huge rocket ships. Many years after he died, that actually happened. I am a big Star Trek fan so growing up, I've watched phasers being fired, people being beamed from place to place, ships traveling faster than the speed of light, and talking robots. I just wonder how much of that stuff will actually happen in the future. Maybe someday that will all really become reality. The same can be said for education, however, I think that education changes a little slower and not quite as drastic as normal everyday lives of people. If you compare today's classroom to one from 100 years ago there are many differences, but let's be honest, a lot of things are the same. Teachers still stand at the front of the room and lecture while students take notes, there are still textbooks, and students still take tests like they have for years. I mean, there are definitely differences in education now compared to 100 years ago and new technologies are always being implemented into classrooms. I just think that education is a little slower to take use of new technologies and developments. But, there are more and more changes all the time as technology is used more often in more classrooms and I think those changes are without a doubt for the better.