A newspaper headline recently read, “Little Red 
Schoolhouse Dies When Good Road Built.” One-room schools, 
with all subjects being taught to all grades at the same time, 
simply dissolve when better transportation permits specialized 
spaces and specialized teaching. At the extreme of speeded-up 
movement, however, specialism of space and subject 
disappears once more. With automation, it is not only jobs that 
disappear, and complex roles that reappear. Centuries of 
specialist stress in pedagogy and in the arrangement of data 
now end with the instantaneous retrieval of information made 
possible by electricity. Automation is information and it not 
only ends jobs in the world of work, it ends subjects in the 
world of learning. It does not end the world of learning. The 
future of work consists of earning a living in the automation 
age. This is a familiar pattern in electric technology in general. 
It ends the old dichotomies between culture and technology,