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          "Moreover, in the educational world of tomorrow, that relic of mass production, the centralized workplace, will become less important. Just as economic mass production required large numbers of workers to be assembled in factories, educational mass production required large numbers of students to be assembled in schools. This itself, with its demands for uniform discipline, regular hours, attendance checks and the like, was a standardizing force. Advanced technology will, in the future, make much of this unnecessary. A good deal of education will take place in the student's at home or in a dorm, at hours of his choosing. With vast libraries of data available to him via computerized information retrieval systems, with his own tapes and video units, his own language laboratory and his own electronically equipped study carrel, he will be freed, for much of the time, of the restrictions and unpleasantness that dogged him in the lockstep classroom.

     The technology upon which these new freedoms will be based will inevitably spread through the schools in the years ahead - aggressively pushed, no doubt, by major corporations like IBM, RCA, and Xerox. Withing thirty years, the educational systems of the United States, and several Western European countries as well, will have broken decisively with the mass production pedagogy of the past, and will have advanced into an era of educational diversity based on the liberating power of the new machines.
     In education, therefore, as in the production of material goods, the society is shifting irresistibly away from, rather than toward, standardization. Is not simply a matter of more varied automobiles, detergents and cigarettes. The social thrust toward diversity and increased individual choices affects our mental, as well as our material surroundings."

    Everyone remember this book was published in 1970.