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I have been working in and with schools for more than 25 years. I started as a high school social studies teacher in a large comprehensive traditional school. In 1997, I joined a team of adventurous educators to create New Technology High School, an innovative school pioneering 1:1 environments, project-based learning, and assessment of 21st Century skills. Our success led to the creation of New Tech Network, a non-profit organization that helps schools manage rapid and systemic change based on the New Tech High model... Just as a Neanderthal couldn't imagine Wall Street with it's sky scrapers, automobiles, and computers, we are now currently struggling to understand the tsunami of change that is just decades away. In 10,000 BC, humans began to give up the hunt-and-gather lifestyle in favor of settled communities that planted crops and raised livestock. This transition.