Gazing Into the Crystal Ball

College officials are often asked to predict the future: What will classroom technology look like five years from now? What devices will today’s high-school freshmen be carrying when they make it to campus? It’s easier to get those questions spectacularly wrong than it is to answer them sensibly.

In the latest installment of The Chronicle‘s Tech Therapy podcast, Scott Carlson, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren Arbogast, a tech consultant, talk about how to predict the future of technology — and whether that’s even possible.