Which direction will education take in our global village in 30 years?

I think our world will either be shaped by a restructuring of education, healthcare, and technology to provide a more localized and equitable distribution/access to goods and services…                      or as a continuation on our current path where billionaires and the wealthy contribute to furthering the inequitable divide based on geography, race, power, and ability.

Change as a result of growing global inequality, race relations and unethical artificial intelligence could allow us to lean left, where an increased focus on creativity, innovation, and interdependence shapes our future. In the following voice recording, I comment on different aspects of a utopian school culture, focusing on fostering connection, belonging and acceptance, and competence for all people in society to make valuable contributions.

In moving towards the right side, I envision an increasingly polarized society where the increasing disparity in wealth globally leads to more violence and extraction of resources. This causes an acceleration of the climate crisis and more violence globally. In this highly digitized world online, there becomes a growing concern with the individual and disregard for the billions of other people on the planet who face famine and natural disaster at an alarming rate. Choices the wealthy and powerful leaders of the 2020s- 2050s become increasingly authoritarian and competitive, which reignited the Cold War and previous global conflicts over finite resources.

A privileged student may go to an elite private school, an artificially constructed city as a bubble, where people live their lives constantly inside a physical bubble to protect them from the outside world. Living on the side would be reserved for the elite wealthy and students of these families would continue to learn amongst one another of the history and evolution of society. All knowledge would be accessible through AI robots and living in this polarized world would demonstrate the necessity to hoard the worlds resources for only the wealthy in order to sustain themselves and their kin. Children in classes could watch as natural disasters affect other parts of the world and do group work to predict the next crisis and attempt to warn the public, but ultimately, the elite class would only be concerned for their own health and well-being as they create artificial methods for producing food and all the resources necessary for their own survival.

Will the future be friendly? Will there be greater divisions among humankind or greater accountability to provide for and sustain everyone?