In these excepts, Mr Perry's statements read like an advertisement. Perhaps he has a secondary agenda, such as trying to justify reduced funding for
traditional educational methods?
"It's a very short route from wireless technology to actually getting the electrical connections in your brain to absorb that knowledge."
The ambiguous of the words 'information' and 'knowledge' is telling. Information can be completely described in an external context; knowledge
(for an individual) cannot; it is holomorphic, depending on contextual relationship and individual representation. Big difference.
The example about language illustrates this:
"I think people will be able to directly access, Matrix-style, all the vocabulary you need for a foreign language, leaving you just to clear
up the grammar."
"Just clear up the grammar" is laughably simplistic. Natural languages inextricably link grammar, vocabulary, word
choice, and metaphor and
conceit at all levels, from phonetic through syntactic to conceptual.
There's a big difference between having a 'database' of word-to-word translations available more quickly than a printed version, and speaking like
a native.
That said, 30 years is a long time, and this is certainly an active field! I know
I would like to shake my head a bit and be instantly able to
fly a helicopter!
Seriously though, I find this to be a little disturbing. There's
something to be said about acquiring knowledge through serious study and introspection. 
