»This puts aside the belief that technologies have themselves an intrinsic power to shape society.«

I wonder whether this is true—looking at learning and how it is changing through technology, for example. How the availability of technology puts educational institutions in a position where they are no longer the only providers of knowledge, and how this new situation—the possibility to engage in informal learning online, the chance to engage in informal, changing networks of informal learners on the web—forces education providers to react…

It may be that the technology was not invented with this particular purpose in mind—possibly not even with this particular consequence being considered at all, not even as a side-effect—but nonetheless: technology does change education, and society.

Yet I wonder–how intrinsic is this capacity for change? Is it inherent to technology, no matter what the context is? Or is it indeed an extrinsic capacity for change, utterly dependent on the fact that knowledge-based, knowledge-limited education is rusty and antiquated?

Ha, so many things to think about!

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