Ok, so the video we watched in class about the world and how it changed was very interesting. Most of it, I thought, was a given, but some of the facts were things I have never heard and it showed me how much our world has changed even in the last couple years. For example, in the video, it said that “half of what they [students] learn in their first year of study will be outdated in their third year of study”. I find this piece of information very interesting, just because it happened to me in math on Friday. My class was taking notes, and I thought I was doing the problem right, but then I found out that the rules had changed to do that type of problem, and so I have to relearn something I thought I knew. It was a coincidence because we watched this video during fourth period and I had math first period. Along with this, in Dr. Alan Kirby's article about "The Death of Postmodernism" he says that “Most of the undergraduates who will take ‘Postmodern Fictions’ this year will have been born in 1985 or after, and all but one of the module’s primary texts were written before their lifetime. Far from being ‘contemporary’, these texts were published in another world, before the students were born”. This, to me, is confusing. Why would we have to learn about something that we did not live through and that will end up changing later on down the road?
I believe that we are moving toward a new social paradigm because everything is becoming electronic. This, however, is not going to be the solution to all the world’s problems. Technology is transforming the world and is practically, taking over the world, in a sense. I think the technology is the power in country as of right now, and it will soon become all of our knowledge.