Epilogue: Holding Both Ends of the Stick: Humanistic Empowerment and Technological Power in the Service of Education and Learning

A distinct and well-known characteristic of quality cultural works is the compatibility between form and content, styles and messages. This quality is present in this book starting from its title, through the statement of its intentions in the introductory chapters, to its last words. The book is polyphonic in its contents, approaches, and styles; refuses any simplistic dichotomy and reduction; and insists on the “both and” approach that establishes complex abilities—those that establish the wisdom of observation and judgment regarding the right thing, in the right place, at the right time, to the right extent, and to the right recipients.