Students as explorers of the unfolding future: looking forward to the next decades of education

New technologies and artificial intelligence are an infinite space of future possibilities: that of non-human creativity and quantum possibilities, that of human/machine ontology and protein unfolding, that of brain-computer interfaces and machine sensitivity. This new territory is already so large that it has become increasingly difficult, and in some cases impossible, to provide our students with all the cognitive, psychological, and technical skills and tools needed to explore this strange new land, whose frontiers keep moving and unfolding as we move through it.

This conference will suggest that one of our best hopes is to train our students to become explorers, navigators, and voyagers of the future. But how will we do it?