I couldn't help catching two major pieces of bad news about Atlanta this week. I have mentioned in the past that I believe we are entering an age of design. By that I have implied that in the not-so-distant future, we will have many real options about how to live and we will see them as real paths we can choose. Education will focus more and more on critical thinking and means of synthetic thought rather than rote learning and interpretation and restatement of existing materials.