Did You Know? 3.0 and Mr. Winkle Wakes

Technology is growing faster than the world has ever seen. It is so unfathomably fast that, by the time someone buys a computer or a piece of software that is, "up to date", it will be obsolete before they can use up half of the memory available on that system. The figures given in Did You Know? 3.0 were absolutely incredible. It shows how quickly not only technology is growing, but also the lifestyle and evolution of humans.

My theory is this: In ancient times people evolved from nomads to farmers, rocks to iron, bows to bullets. These changes took a very long time to come about. Now that technology has completely fused itself with how and what people do on a daily basis, I feel that we as humans will evolve along side of, and just as quickly as, technology. Soon there will be no need to travel because you can go into a room that is completely integrated with virtual reality. You can smell the salty air and feel the sun on your skin in Hawaii if you want, all while standing in a room in your home. This video is a perfect example of this.

Mr. Winkle Wakes was, to say the least, an eye opener. The basis of this movie is that education has not moved as quickly as technology has. It is almost as if the educational system was left out during this technology boom. Rip Van Winkle notices that offices and hospitals have totally integrated with all of these machines and new technology that is allowing the people there to do extraordinary things.

He points out that machines are allowing people to have conversations and see each other half a world away. Other machines are able to keep people alive that would otherwise be long since dead. So why does the school not have amazing machines like these? Machines that could absorb the information lectured for the student? Yes, the educational system is almost exactly as it was over one hundred years ago, whereas everything else around it has changed dramatically.