Today I was asked to bear witness to statistics revealing all too clearly the unique challenges facing the next generation of people, students, and American students. Issues such as the smartest quarter of India's population being more than the total population of the United States, and the rate at which the amount of information known to man is growing pose unique challenges to the education system and students.
My junior high superintendent was fond of quoting a select group of statistics in the video- those covering the creation of new jobs, how we won't hold them, and how there will be too much to know, as part of emphasizing the curricular adaptations I have already been partaking in.
On whole, however, the video strikes some fear into me for the stability of my future, and what kind of job there will be, I'll be needed for with the influx of computers and foreigners, as well as how international affairs will be changed. My hope would be that the classic traits which have thus far withstood 300 years of industrialization, creativity and hard work, will help me find a place in a changed world, or at least create a system in which a place can be found.
Science also becomes more valuable, so I can know 2/4,000,000 of all scientific knowledge there will be, instead of 1/4,ooo,ooo. Like a complete idiot.
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