“…one of the almost inevitable educational visions of our time”
–Dr. Zachary Stein

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Digital Platforms Are the Most Profitable Companies on the Planet, and Poised to Transform Education…
A former software engineer, Principal Zeimer takes readers through an in-depth evaluation of how digital technology and economics are poised to transform education by carefully examining the concept of academic capital.

What Skills Are Recession-Proof?
How Should You Prepare Your High School Student for an Uncertain Future?

• Learn why jobs are in decline and what will replace them

• Understand how digital media production will replace some standardized testing

• Gain insight into how digital technology trends such as decentralization and open source could collide to challenge the nation’s largest corporations

• Study the history of economic trends and inquire into whether America is bound for totalitarian corporate rule or a drastic expansion of democratic values

• Explore the research on human bias and discover why anti-bias is crucial for economic growth

• Delve into the limits of artificial intelligence and how a digital native future inverts its role in society

• Question whether surveillance capitalism is something we should worry about

A MINDSET SHIFT
FROM: INDUSTRIAL TO: DIGITAL 

FROM: Students are consumers of information
TO: Students are creators of content

FROM: More stuff represents prosperity
TO: More users represents prosperity

FROM: Students identify correct answer as fast as possible
TO: Students think critically about questions that they design

FROM: Broadcasting
TO: Narrowcasting

FROM: Boss decides what to produce which is pushed to consumers (“supply side”)
TO: Users decide what to produce and they pull items into existence (“Demand side”)

FROM: It costs money and involves logistics to distribute goods and services leading to economies of scale (monopoly dynamics)
TO: Distribution is free and instant leading to network effects (winner-takes-all platform dynamics)

FROM: Security means armed guards and guns, stormtroopers
TO: Security means encryption, hackers

FROM: Ownership (owning capital leads to profits / Zero-sum dynamics)
TO: Sharing (Uber has no cars, Airbnb no homes, AliBaba no stores / positive-sum dynamics)

FROM: The corporation / “having a job” / centralized
TO: The Platform / “doing work” / crowdsourced

FROM: Groupthink of the executive team
TO: “Mass identities” manipulate the crowd (centralized attention)

FROM: Uniformity and competition on standardized tasks
TO: Collaboration and diversity of creative work products