In this last task, we are asked to dive into speculations of futures and compose two narratives about our potential relationship with media, education, text and technology in the next 30 years. The two pieces that you are about to view might initially seem like a doom fiction of helplessness and hopelessness in the age of unhinged digital despots. However, when you go thoroughly into each, you may sense something more like a<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Yin and Yang<\/span>\u00a0pattern; \u201cwithin each utopia, a concealed dystopia; within each dystopia, a hidden utopia\u201d (Atwood, 2011, p.85); this how I envision the future.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n While composing the future scenarios, I was highly drawn to the nifty framework (i.e., cones) of Dunne and Raby (2013): what is probable to happen; What is possible; what is plausible; what is preferable. The first narrative is built on the viability of<\/span> Neurolink\u2019s project<\/span><\/a>\u00a0sponsored by Elon Musk, aiming towards “superhuman cognition\u201d and\u00a0<\/span>singularity<\/span><\/a>. The narration perpetuates well the humans and technology clash or the “ethical crash” as foreseen by several higher education scholars (Aoun, 2018; O\u2019Brien, 2020; O\u2019Neil, 2016). The second narrative provides a glimpse into an infinite classroom (i.e., based on VR\/AR advancement in the future). Both scenarios encapsulate a futuristic depiction proposed in Asimov\u2019s short story \u201cThe Fun They Had. \u201d Asimov (1950) predicted that by the year 2157, each child would have an individualized mechanic robot that will be engineered to fit his\/her learning abilities. We are already headed in the direction of robot teachers\/assistants much sooner than Asimov anticipated. At Georgia Institute of Technology, Professor Goel created an AI teaching assistant named Jill Watson (Leopold, 2017)<\/span> . She was so successful that the students didn\u2019t realize that she was AI; Dr. Adam (the robot teacher in my scenario) is an advanced version of Jill in the near future. Below are my<\/span><\/span> narratives from speculative futures:<\/span><\/p>\n[1] My brain chip<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n