Did You Know?

In class on February 23rd, we watched this interesting video. It was definitely an eye-opening presentation, and something that made me think about the day and age in which we are living.

First, I do not think it is xenophobic. Rather, it is a telling fact about the times we live in, and the technology that surrounds us. Just within the last few years, the amount of information, from text-messaging, to the bites-per-seconds has increased dramatically. It astounded me the statistics in this video, and just over the course of a few years how the numbers have jumped. When they compared the numbers to people on the face of the earth I was simply stunned.

Secondly, in the very beginning of the video, when it talked about preparing kids for jobs that do not exist I was not as shocked because I had read about that before, but thought about how the times have changed even since my brother was looking for a job decades ago. The thing that really amazed me was the statistic about the number of people who remained in their jobs for a certain amount of time. I can remember my dad telling me how he does not know a single person who remains at their job for more than five years now. My brother, who works at a hedge fund, has been at his job for ten years now and is constantly looking for a different job. It might be because of how bad the economy is, but he is always talking about working somewhere else. My father, on the other hand, has been working at IBM since 1973, and recently retired. He always told me about how the workplace has changed, both in the way the workplace looks, and how people are constantly leaving, but back when he first started working, it was not like that.