Given unfettered economical access to the means for distributing information, varied private and public patterns of mediating learning can continue to evolve with changing preferences under whatever guidance advancing knowledge of learning can provide. Otherwise, talk of technology helping learning in a democratic society will be academic in the most pejorative sense of the word.
-- Anthony Oettinger and Nikki Zapol (Will Information Technologies Help Learning? (1972))
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