Bruce Nussbaum reporting from the Davos conference on power shifts in four categories: geopolitics, economics, technology/society and business. Two in particular seem relevant to me in terms of learning and education: "Rise of The New Individual, empowered by networks" and "Shift to collective intelligence from individual intelligence and aggregators of information".If individuals can become empowered by networks, it would seem to me that people have to learn how to do this and live this way. I know from my own experience, it took me quite some time to learn how to be effective with ubiquitous networking power. Even now I don't take full advantage, and I'm on the leading edge. What about everyone else, how or will they learn this? Kids are easy, this is the only world they have ever known. Adults have to unlearn before they can learn, and that's hard. If they don't then they lose out to those who can adapt. Technology learning establishes a selection force.
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