Education: Continuing Emerging technologies are rapidly gaining influence over contemporary society. In a world that has just witnessed the advent of the interactive video grocery cart, audio greeting cards, and a 3-D television commercial for Coca Cola, it's evident that every aspect of social and economic activity will be penetrated by these emerging technologies in ways that are now inconceivable. The increasing technological sophistication of many consumer products is making society more familiar and comfortable with the entrenchment of an Electronic Information Age. Familiarity is the key to greater acceptance and application. At the same time, a technology is only as good as the ability to appropriately match it with an application. In adult education, computers and telecommunications technologies will play an increasingly important role. Laptop computers will in fact be electronic books that permit student discretion in selecting the place and pace of instruction. Interactive programs with real time graphics capabilities will provide individualized training to suit the user's interest or need. Natural language processing will permit a voice interface between user and machine, with the capability to translate between English and French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Swahili, Japanese and other languages using expandable, preprogrammed ROM chips. Exploiting the Mind