Web 2.0

Change used to be different. Change used to come in quick jumps with platos to allow people to catch up. As technology has advanced the time people stay on the platos has shrank to almost nothing. It used to be that the average person would have to spend sixty-seventy percent of their time gathering food for themselves. I bet in the future we will spend that amount of time keeping up with the changes that have happened over night.
This is what I think Web 2.0 will be to us. It will be a radical change in education and how a person thinks of education. When the first colleges were founded they were solely about gathering knowledge and getting that knowledge into students. Today however the knowledge doesn't need to be gathered. It is everywhere. Today our studies are less about dates and facts, and more about learning how to access and find these facts and organize them, from a vast variety of sources into an immediate use. Today the most important knowledge is how to access it faster and organize it better then the next person. Therefore to stay on top on a daily basis, one must spend time learning about the new iPhone and how to use it, or the newest updates to facebook or myspace or google. These are the new skills one must master to be competitive in the marketplace and in life. This is going to change education, for one must spend time every day learning new skills. Gone are the days were we learned all the skills we would ever need in college and then used them as we progressed through life. This is the burden our children will carry, we must push our ability to evolve in order to be competitive. Education in the future will become all about learning how to learn as fast as possible.
The other skill one must learn now is not to fear, resist, or impede change but to except it with enthusiasm. It is these people that will be come leaders in the business and non business world. The people who learn to stay right at the leading edge of change.