Shift Happens!
This video is a little dated (been out about a year), but is well worth the 6 minutes it takes to watch.
The presentation is crisp and very well designed with a great shock factor. People using PowerPoint could do well to mimic the design of this presentation and put away the fifteen bullets per slide.
My suggestion: embrace change, evolve while taking responsibility for your own development and remove the word “can’t” from your vocabulary.
Some quotes:
- “The top 10 jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004 and we are preparing students for jobs that don’t even exist in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.”
- “If MySpace subscribers were a country, it would be the 11th largest in the world.”
- “Who answered all of our questions before Google (B.G.)?”
- “By 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the human race.”
- “About 1.5 exabytes of unique information will be generated this year, which is more than in the previous 5,000 years.”
Here is a table that defines byte sizes:
