- The amount of information you find in a copy of New York Times is equivalent to the amount of information an average person would come across in a lifetime in the 19th century.
- Technology is advancing so fast that if you are taking a 4 year course in ICT, by the time you have reached your final year, half of what you've learnt is now outdated.
- 99% of what you know has been discovered in the last 50 years.
I think that I would have great difficulty with my independent study if all I had was access to a library. I think it is good to have dumb-downed information and information the way it was written. A teenager recently made a fortune in an app which summarizes news stories. But it is good to have sites like Wikipedia which don't dumb it down at all.
I can't believe he amount of information you find in a copy of New York Times is equivalent to the amount of information an average person would come across in a lifetime in the 19th century. Thats just crazy.
ReplyDeleteIts true. Information just travelled very slow back then. The main difference probably isn't the intelligence of people, but how many people went to school. A person from modern times who gets a similar education from 19th century might be as smart, but back then, very few people got a proper education.
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