Last week I attended the SITE 2013 conference in New Orleans. Many presenters summarized recent history and speculated about the future. They reminded me of Osmo A. Wiio’s finding that we overestimate the impact of technological change in the short term but underestimate it in the long term. The educational use of technology tends to spread slowly, according to its pioneers, but the eventual effect will be revolutionary. Keynote speakers Milton Chen and Paul Kim strongly supported the view that education must be connected closely to the real world: we need tools to enable learning everywhere, all the time, and not solely inside the walls of a school. On the Internet, you have to provide an easy, stimulating platform where students organize their own activities, and students will teach each other. Paul Kim predicted that in the future, formal grading may become obsolete; evaluation will be done by students, who will recognize and reward the contributions made online by their peers. He himself gave endorsements on LinkedIn to participants in his MOOC. Mariana Patru from UNESCO was concerned about the geographical and gender-based digital divide, which mobile learning may be able to narrow. Education cannot remain in the pre-digital era; digital age teachers need to update their skills constantly in professional learning communities.