Buckminster Fuller Presages Online Education, with a Touch of TED, Netflix, and Pandora, in 1962 - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

A prophetic vision for mobile, time-shifted, tele-commuted, on-demand education. In 1962, Buckminster Fuller delivered a prophetic lecture at Southern Illinois University on the future of education aimed at “solving [educational] problems by design competence instead of by political reform.” It was eventually published as Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity (public library) — a prescient vision for online education decades before the web as we know it, and half a century before the golden age of MOOCs, with elements of TED and Pandora mixed in. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/05/buckminster-fuller-education-automation-1962/