Computers in the late 80s were going to change everything, but then we realised they couldn’t do very much that was really different.
In the 1990s, CDs with encyclopedias such as Encarta appeared which were going to kill the textbook, but that never really happened.
Microsoft put out the “Where do you want to go today?” adverts in the 1990s, but we didn’t really seem to go anywhere.
And then it was interactive whiteboards which were the next big thing, with England among those who were very keen to adopt. Used well they can be highly effective, but the majority are used as little more than a white blackboard.
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