These Vintage Ideas of the Future Were Actually Pretty Impressive

These Vintage Ideas of the Future Were Actually Pretty Impressive

Shannon Quinn - December 15, 2022

These Vintage Ideas of the Future Were Actually Pretty Impressive
The concept for a future elementary school in Japan. Credit: Rare Historical Photos

Elementary School Classrooms Monitored By Robots

In this illustration from Japan, we see the concept that one day in the future, teachers would no longer be present in the classroom. Robots are circling the room bopping the kids on the head whenever they act up. This seems very distracting for the kids, but it does away with the need for the teacher to do it herself. On each desk, we see a small computer that the kids are working from. And along the back wall, there is a much larger retro computer system. In a lot of ways, this is similar to Zoom homeschooling that happened during the pandemic… Minus the robots, of course.

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