> There has been no discussion (apparent to me anyway) on this
> list about
> what is happening so rapidly to world economies; and the
> implications for
> learning.
I'm reading a book - The Road to 2015. It's written by a guy who has been
involved in government research, mostly military funded, on what the
future brings - he's a futurist. The data they've collected is
undeniable. 80 percent of all scientists in the history of the world are
alive today. The amount of information that is being generated and made
available to us doubles every 18 months! By following the extremely
predictable evolution cycles that we've gone through, as a species (the
cycle *times* are the only predictable part), they make the case that we
are on the virge of a RADICAL advancement in the human race in the next 20
years. Not a minor shift, but a RADICAL shift through the application of
research and the cross-domain fertilization that is occuring as
researchers in one domain learn and apply results from research in other
domains.
The key in this all is our ability to learn what we need to learn and not
get bogged down learning everything else that becomes available.
Computing power is still growing at geometric rates and software that
helps us manage all of this information is also getting better, but it is
not yet helping our ability to stay on top of the information tidal wave
that is coming at us. I think that our ability to manage this information
tidal wave is going to play a key role in the upcoming RADICAL human shift
that we are about to experience.
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