Dominic Wyse

The quick drawers, the people who can...

draw you a text, as it were, in images.

They're going to be the kings and queens of the new world.

Absolutely, yes.

But I'm thinking a lot of my work these days uses search engines, specialised databases to help me to access quickly.

So maybe we're going to have more intense access.

emotional connections when we come across something that really is a revelation to us, but actually finding something in particular is going to be very difficult.

Dominic, what does education look like in a world like that?

In many ways, it could be far better in many Western countries.

The education systems are still trapped in Victorian times.

So I'm now living in a world where the work in classrooms is all about talking, engaging through activities that require drawing, painting, making music.

So we're going to have perhaps the ideal hands-on education.

We need to experience things directly.

We need to be creative.

So I'm beginning to feel very positive about the world without writing.

Yeah, that does worry me.

If we want to solve what's sometimes called wicked problems or grand challenges, part of the way we do that is through incremental building of knowledge, big breakthroughs sometimes, small breakthroughs, all recorded, documented through writing.

So we have to become physical experimenters.

We have to find ways to remember.

But the challenge is enormous given, for example, that advanced mathematics is written text.