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January’s Learning Technologies Conference - Learning for the
YouTube generation - show all news stories Thursday 26th January
2012 10:00 - 10:30 Theatre 6 The web within us: when minds and
machines become one The onset of the 21st century is an era in
which the very nature of what it means to be human is both
enriched and challenged, as our species breaks the shackles of
its genetic legacy, and achieves inconceivable heights of
intelligence, material progress, and longevity. The paradigm
shift rate is now doubling every decade, so the twenty-first
century will see 20,000 years of progress at today’s rate.
Consider how much the world has changed recently. Just a few
years ago, people did not use social networks (Facebook, for
example, was founded in 2004 and now has over 800 million active
users), wikis, blogs, or tweets. Most people did not use search
engines or mobile phones in the 1990s. Imagine the world without
these. That sounds like ancient hist