Development and change
The aggregated amount of information in the world, is as we all know today, endless. Some claim that the amount of new technical information is doubling every second year. This means that for students starting a technical degree at a university, half of what they learned year one is outdated at the end of year three. Others claim that we are met by more than 4000 messages each day and that a week’s NY Times contains almost as much information as a person came across in her lifetime, during the 18th century.
During these times described by some as times of extremely rapid change, what have happened with; how we communicate, how we teach, how we learn and how we internalise things?
How have our brains developed?