Three women smiling while talking with another colleague at the 100 Year EdTech Design Summit in 2024.

New guide to help education leaders navigate the next 50 years

This week, the 100 Year EdTech Project launched its 2074 Guide, a digital publication for education and technology changemakers to strategically plan for the next 50 years. “This Guide serves as a roadmap and a call to action, inviting us to imagine, innovate and invest in a future where education transcends traditional boundaries and embraces the digital age,” said Arizona State University (ASU) Chief Information Officer Lev Gonick, who is a founding member of the project. ASU’s Enterprise Technology is also a key supporter of the initiative.



More than 200 international education leaders and 110 organizations contributed to the 40-page guide, which is available as both a dynamic web version and a downloadable PDF. The 2074 Guide is an output resource from the project’s Design Summit, which took place in Scottsdale, Arizona, from February 27-March 1, 2024. Read more about the Design Summit.

Peek inside the publication

In addition to a foreword from Gonick, the Guide includes a summary of the project and its framework, strategies to instill deeper futures thinking and more. Unlike other research in education and technology, this is the first known project to take a century-long view – emphasizing the need for deeper futures thinking.

Key content from the Guide includes:

Eight scenarios of the future At the 2024 Design Summit, participants explored eight distinct futures that could potentially take place in the year 2074, applying their expertise to dissect and propose recommendations for the next 50 years. Explore the eight scenarios, complete with videos, initial findings from Design Summit attendees, and actionable recommendations.

Eight provocations to consider Because we are responsible for the future we create, the Guide includes provocations for education and technology leaders to refer to often and serve as a reminder to ask hard questions and find positive examples to move education forward.

Eight project exemplars Gain inspiration from some of the real-world projects that address the project’s 2024 Future Scenarios and Provocations, submitted by the 100 Year EdTech Project community.

The community will gather again from March 19-21, 2025, at The University of Texas at San Antonio in Texas for the second Design Summit – as announced by UTSA Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, Melissa Vito, at the publication launch event.

About the 100 Year EdTech Project

The 100 Year EdTech Project was founded by ASU’s Enterprise Technology, SAB Creative & Consulting and StoryCenter to help the field of education prepare for the next 50 years. It believes education and technology are fundamental companions to shaping a thriving society, and its mission is to ignite collaboration among diverse stakeholders to envision, design, and implement innovative solutions that will shape the next century of learning. Visit https://100yearedtechproject.org/ to learn more.

“What makes this work particularly exciting is the community behind it – it’s an authentic cross-section of all the key stakeholders in education from a diversity of learning sectors,” shared Samantha Adams Becker, CEO of SAB Creative & Consulting and co-founder of the project. “It will take more focused collaboration to solve for our loftiest challenges and rise to the occasion for the most compelling opportunities.”