You and I know that predicting the future is risky business. But there are people around us who are able to envisage future events based on trends, observation and analysis. Such people try and make intelligent forecast in business, finances, relationships and society in general simply by observing certain things and interpreting them in the right manner. By observing changes in demography, technologies, labour markets, information production, distribution and growth, a whole school of futurologists are making predictions on educational trends of the future. In this section, we shall examine some of these predictions as they are influenced by educational technologies.

The section is presented in five segments, dealing with one or another aspect of the educational ecosystem.