CHAPTER 10
Epilogue: The Future of Mind Changing
OF ALL OF THE SPECIES ON EARTH , we human beings are the ones who specialize in voluntary mind change: we change the minds of others, we change our own minds. We have even crafted various technologies that allow us to extend the sweep of mind change: powerful mechanical artifacts like writing implements, televisions, and computers; and equally powerful human contrivances like the teaching strategies, curricula, and tests that we associate with schools. In the coming decades, mind changing will continue and, in all probability, accelerate. I believe that new forms of mind changing will emerge in three areas—in what I’ll call wetware, dryware, and goodware.
WETWARE
We are born into this world with ...
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