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Stephen Downes

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Audrey Watters is on point. "I don't agree at all with the famous saying by computer scientist Alan Kay that 'the best way to predict the future is to build it.' I've argued elsewhere that the best way to predict the future is to issue a press release. The best way to predict the future of education is to get Thomas Friedman to write an op-ed in The New York Times about your idea and then a bunch of college administrators will likely believe that it's inevitable."

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