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What has the computer done to education? What does the future hold for universities in its wake? Uncertain Education argues that the impact of technology on education has resulted in ever-increasing uncertainty where universities are in a positive-feedback loop from which they will not escape without radical transformation. Mark Johnson presents an analysis of uncertainty in education using the science of cybernetics. Drawing on the cybernetic approach to examining whole systems, he details a methodology for conceiving of the sustainable relationship between technology and the institution of education in an environment of uncertainty. In showing how cybernetic insights can shed light on education's current and future state, it pinpoints where future developments in global education lie, and where society's technologically-produced uncertainty will take us. The book will be of interest to scholars of education and technology, as well as those interested in the practical technological issues faced by all universities both now and in the future.