Where Can We Go Now?

Possibilities This Year

• Extend High Visibility Examples
• Raise Visibility of Student Projects
• Show Faculty how to use Student Experts
• More Classroom Presentations Using Multimedia
• More Classrooms Equipped for Multimedia
• More Faculty Professional Presentations based on MultiMedia

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Possibilities Next Year

• Platform Independance
• Authoring Independance
• Sorce Material Archives
• Production Orientation
• Universal Training on Techniques
• Development and Documentation of Standard Procedures
• Integrate Research and Teaching
• More Student Technical Helpers
• Gameing Technology used to network players into Macro Aggregations of Micro Policies

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Possibilities in Five to Ten Years

• Visual & Audio Cortexs available on Silicon
• Conceptionary available on Silicon
• Language Based Computer/User Interaction
• Automatic Language Translation
• More Students Educated in Multiple Discplines
• All Digital Media is in now On-Line at all times and available to Students and Faculty
• Archival Storage and Maintenance of URL's for "Early Material" becomes a Major Issue
• Interdiscplinary Institutes
• Mayan Institute publishes new, contemporary works of Native Mayan Speakers in Glyphs
• Compacted Degree Programs
• Extended Off Campus Learning
• Grade School/High School classes linked to Projects in Education Department
• National/International Agreements on Sharing Knowledge Assets
• Library Science/Computer Science/RTF/Natural Sciences/Humanities become interactive
• Increased Links with Industry via Special Projects carried out on net
• Experiments carried out on "Glass Classroom"
• Many Student have On-Line Jobs
• Aggregate Gameing Institute merges into Institute for Public Policy
• Institute for Humanities becomes fastest growing entity on Campus
• Theory of Human Information is Developed

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Possibilities in Twenty Five Years

• Glass Classroom become predominate (but its not glass)
• Restrictions on Enrollment are Removed
• Enrollment passes 250,000 most are time students
• Eighty Percent of Students Telecommute
• Average Age of Students is Above 30
• Many Classrooms have been converted to Experience Chambers where students are exposed to direct perception environments.
• School of Library Science overwhelmed by Maintenance of Archival Material. Conversion project instituted to Old Digital material up to Modern Standards
• Libraries converted to Museums, All paper stored off campus in Special Conditions for preservation. Access Limited
• Theory of Human Knowledge is developed

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Possibilities in Fifty Years

• The Information Structure of DNA is discovered to be similar to Human Languages
• A major source of University revenue is derived from contracts relating to Students hired to run policy simulators for busines and government.
• The Center for Performing Arts has transformed into the CPA Network and generates world wide revenues via its Live Virtual Performances
• Alternatives
  1. Lifeforms found on Distant Planet
  2. No Lifeforms found Anywhere (Alone Again)
  3. Intergalactic DNA fragments found to be source of Earth Epidemics, Mutations
• Library of Congress completes conversion to On-Line
• School of Library Science struggles with readability of Old Digital files. Funding for re-recording and re-formating becomes an issue.
• All Schools in Texas are On-Line to University Digital Library. Many are equipped with Experience Chambers for Total Emersion
• Five Nobel Prizes awarded to University Faculty over past 25 years
• Theory of Human Wisdom is developed

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