Issues and challenges to the right to education in the digital age 2016, para. 26
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Digital technologies are becoming ubiquitous and provide vast opportunities for new forms of connections and collaboration, as knowledge and information can be digitized and transmitted electronically. They are transforming learning and teaching, and the everyday lives of academics and students. As Nicholas Carr wrote in The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, "the future of knowledge and culture no longer lies in books ... or records or CDs. It lies in digital files shot through our universal medium at the speed of light".
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Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to education
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Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
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Education
Year
2016
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Other
Reference
SR Education, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/32/37, para. 26.