Douglas Rushkoff response to Mark Prensky

This part sounded like a warning to me - a warning as clear as anything Mark Bauerlin may have said. "Anticipate and control" in order to avoid the "trance" of "slaves."

> This upheaval
> generates great pain and identity loss, which can be ameliorated only
> through a conscious awareness of its dynamics. If we understand the
> revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate
> and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal
> trance, we will be their slaves."

And this part sounded media deterministic - more like "just get with the program" it's all gonna be all right if we can just dispose of our allegiance to the literary model of the past, and all of its embedded
repression.

> Our entire educational system is reactionary, oriented to past
> values and past technologies, and will likely continue so until the
> old generation relinquishes power.