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with contributions from Rex Graham, Michael Valpy

"If we apply careful foresight and planning, technology can indeed be used in ways that are dramatic and meaningful. Further, it should not be at all unrealistic to expect these technologies to operate so seamlessly that today's hardware and software failures, as well as familiar incompatibilities between platforms and users, will seem like the Dark Ages.

"Bill Gates calls the children who will never have known a world without the Internet 'Generation I,' and postulates that because of their lifelong exposure to the medium, they will envision the use of the Internet in a completely different way than it is used now. In order to capture the imaginations of these future students, it is critical that we start making changes now, " writes Rachel E. Saury, director of the Arts and Sciences Center for Instructional Technologies and lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia.

"Globalization of the world economy and of politics has broken down what seemed like inviolable national boundaries and barriers. As a result, we are experiencing a deepening complexity and more unknowns in education, medicine, diplomacy, technology, the arts, law, and business practices than ever before in human history."

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