>>Sugata Mitra: Imagine that you -- you know,
you've applied for a job, and you go in there
and your prospective employer says what can
you do, and you say I have good handwriting
and I can recite the 17 times-tables.
Now, about a hundred years ago, if you said
those two things, you would get the job because
you needed good handwriting and you needed
to be able to do arithmetic in your head because
the school was going to produce people who
would fit into a gigantic bureaucratic administrative
machine, a computer made up of people. Everybody
had to be identical. Everybody had to get
50 out of a hundred in everything and fit
in.
But today, you won't get that job.
Today, we've actually got computers, real
computers, which are made up of little pieces
of electronics.
So guess what? We can be people again.
