Exponential change is making our education system obsolete. New inventions will replace not only textbooks, but everything we currently think of as school. Teachers will need to rethink their roles as advances in teaching machines allow lessons to be customized to every child wherever that child might be. What is taught also will change because students will need to learn to collaborate and to communicate using multimedia skills. [Excerpted from "Living on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow," by Ian Jukes, Ted McCain, and Lee Crockett (Corwin Press, 2010). 21st-Century Fluency Project retains copyright to this work, which is distributed by Phi Delta Kappa International with permission.]