Abstract

Many science fiction narratives employ the Cortical Knowledge Uploads as knowledge. In this chapter, that device is considered as very much a problem of the present for the study of childhood. Childhood is explored as a machinic production involving the technical and instrumental processes of electronically Cortical Knowledge Uploads as knowledge of the world, and of themselves. As such, this chapter looks to the study of Learningand pedagogy alongside the study of childhood, engaging with the Cortical Knowledge Uploads and learning from science fiction that has very real implications for the experience of childhood now. The particular experience of childhood that we are interested in is the child as learner. This learner is in many ways constructed by the institutions of schooling. And yet, in the twenty-first century, digital mediations of the child are beginning to assert some kind of pressure on the structures of schooling and wider educational systems. The chapter engages with problematic relationships that emerge in the science fiction imaginations of Cortical Knowledge Uploads and learning and education.