The 1995 book The Road Ahead by Bill Gates included a CD-ROM with video of what the classroom of the future would look like.
The paleo-future of 1995 is filled with ethnically diverse students academically engaged by the high-tech presentations of their fellow classmates. The teacher brings the class to attention by telling them to "get off the net." Every child has a diverse array of technology at their disposal. The keyboard Mr. Ballard uses is the most confusing of the supposed advances we see in the video.
(Is it just me or was "Mr. Ballard’s" presentation completely devoid of useful information?)
A special thanks to Valleywag, who inspired the search for this paleo-futuristic video.
