Matrix Education

There was a part of Matrix where Neo was essentially programmed with many styles of fighting at once. Usually people refer to Star Trek tech when talking about visions of the future however this is Matrix tech.

I believe the transporter would do more to make this a very tiny world and bring people closer together than anything else. Perhaps with a dash of Matrix tech everyone could enjoy a free, efficient education as well.

Writing and books are essentially the same as they have been for thousands of years. Someone writes it on a media, it is then read by the reader and interpreted or retained. The costly middleman of this whole process is your motor skills and reading skills. If someday they were able to be bypassed in favor of essentially loading a book into your head along with the enjoyment that comes with it, books would only then become obsolete.

Books would become obsolete, not writing. Writing will likely be the most efficient way of relaying an idea from one to another outside of speaking itself. Say you'd like to read the entire Charles Dickens collection but that'd take months if not years to complete. You don't have that kind of time as you'd also like to read many many more authors as well. Someday perhaps, it could be loaded up, implanted into your head via USB 5.0 cable and learned in a matter of minutes.

Just as the transporter would allow anyone to live anywhere on earth, work anywhere on earth, and revolutionize travel, instant reading would do the same. Education wouldn't take from kindergarten to post graduate school anymore. It'd be a matter of perhaps a few months. Granted there are many social aspects to school that one should not miss out on, there are also aspects many would like to skip or forget altogether.

With knowledge comes great responsibility though and I'm sure there are many unforeseen problems I've not thought of this fine morning.