The following Op-Ed piece from the NY Times has been widely distributed. If you are interested in our precollege math education system, I believe you will want to read the article.

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It took me a long time to progress from using the acronym IT (Information Technology) to the acronym ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Now, I believe I should be applying myself to learning the acronym NIT (Networking and Information Technology).

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As I have mentioned previously, one of my most favorite quotes is:

Quoting Marshall McLuhan (who died in 1980):

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium—that is, of any extension of ourselves—result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. (Marshall McLuhan; Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar; 1911–1980.)

McLuhan’s insightful and prescient statement was made long before we had the Web, cell phones, and were making rapid strides toward ubiquitous connectivity. Think in terms of the new medium consisting of computers, computerized devices, connectivity, and artificial intelligence.