If you have 5 minutes, this is well worth watching. If you are a World of Warcraft addict, maybe it will be the saviour of you or hopefully you don’t give a dam!:^)

This link will take you to an archival website made by Ultralab, I think a collaboration between Richard Millwood and Tom Smith. Unfortunately, the comments don’t work anymore but it makes for an interesting and amusing read about how a group of educationalists thought technology dominated education would look like by 2015…

Oh, and if it was Tom (web guru extraordinaire) who built the website then why is the text “Click here to enter the website” not a link in itself, it is the button below “Education 2015″ that needs clicking on:^)

Are archives like this important? Are there any examples of older archived websites around?

Education 2015 was a conference held in 1994 at Bangor University, Wales to discuss what learning in the future might look like? With a group of teacher education friends, we met to discuss scenarios and create digital video sound-bites, so that the debates may reach a wider audience than those who attended the conference.

This was the story…

All over the world, people connected to the Internet started receiving un-identified information. Fragments of information that seemed to be from the future…

We invented characters that responded to the fragments and I turned all of this into a piece of software…