I was told to watch these videos. I was told that they were best viewed while wearing parachute pants. I found my parachute pants and was dismayed to find that they now just fit like regular pants.
The videos nailed the idea that research would become much faster, and the average high school student would have access to a greater number of resources. They even had a proto-Siri/J.A.R.V.I.S.
The most obvious element they got wrong were the class sizes of the future. They also placed a bit too much faith in the endurance of 1980's hair styles. Apparently they felt that they had truly nailed it, and future generations wouldn't want to change a thing.
If you can get past the thick crust of 80's cheese, they are fairly accurate. Online collaboration is on the cusp of being the norm. Accessing the records of universities and film archives not be unusual.
I think that the arc that these videos is predicting will continue. More and more coursework will be done independent of the classroom, using digital search and multimedia tools. Teachers will become more and more responsible for educating youth in how to find information, rather than how to remember information. The challenge of how to make that information relevant to the youth will, however, remain.
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