Speaking at the International Federation of Training and Development Organisations conference last week, Elliot Masie, a new technology adviser to the Clinton administration, described his vision of lifelong learning. Amongst the examples he used was his 88 year old mother¹s Œconversion¹ to email which had transformed their relationship from one phone call a week, to 4 contacts a day. Masie told of how her resistance to new technology had quickly broken down and she was now a model continuous learner who regularly surfed the Internet with her friends.