Dialogue New Technologies

Thanks to the science, an incredible experience could take place; the meeting between Abby (a student in 2019) and Margie (a student in 2157).

ABBY: I’m so happy to meet you!

MARGIE: The pleasure is shared! I know you wanted to meet me, but I don’t know why…

ABBY: I have a multitude of questions to ask you! You come from the future and I am really curious to know how it works. I’d like to be in your shoes Margie…

MARGIE a little bit pale complexion: Um… I think you’re going a little fast Abby. You shouldn’t wish you were in the future, your era matches you well and then you never really know what’s going on, on the other side…

ABBY offended: Are you kidding me?! Of course I know what is happening in the future! We always talk about it in my “era”.

MARGIE: Is that so? Then you must know we don’t have teachers.

ABBY: This further information makes me over the moon! It’s so cool to not having teachers! Tell me how it works.

MARGIE: Well, it’s not that cool to not having teachers since you don’t have a human or a social contact and the personal development doesn’t exist…And if you make progress, guess what?

ABBY: What?

MARGIE: There is no congratulation! It’s very sad; I don’t like this system… And I hate my mechanical teacher.

ABBY: Wait… If you have a mechanical teacher, it is normal to not having a human contact because humans are here for that, not mechanical teachers… And you don’t have to wait for congratulations, do it for yourself, not for having something from a robot… It’s ridiculous…

MARGIE: Ok. And what about art or music? The robot can’t teach us these disciplines.

ABBY: Of course he can’t, go in an art school!

MAGGIE: But we are in the future! Come on! Where is the progress? And this situation is ridiculous not my feeling about it!

ABBY: Ok, one point for you. Where is the positive aspect of the future?

MARGIE: We can stay at home since the robot can adapt to our level.

ABBY very excited: Is it a joke? It is super cool especially for the pupils with educational difficulties.

MARGIE: I agree it’s a nice aspect. And you know what? The robot is never sick not like the teachers that you have in 2019. In my opinion, it makes it possible to progress.

ABBY: Finally, I wasn’t going to fast about your future, and I want to live in your era, really! I find it so interesting and the “bad points” are not too bad… You don’t like your system, but my system is not the best. We don’t have robot, we have humans as teachers but it doesn’t mean that everybody succeeded with the social contact because you know how rude a human can be and it concerned pupils but also teacher. So, bad points exist for the system in 2019.

MARGIE: I know that. You have to know that robots need electricity so, this system is not good for the environment and this is a huge problem. It means that in the future, the system about school is in evolution

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