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Degrees are losing their clout according to the New York Times.
The U.S. produces a large number of workers whose skills aren’t needed.
A degree by itself is not worth what it once was. This means high schoolers planning to go to college need to start thinking more about what they intend to do after graduation so they can put their college years to good use.
A college degree is not a one-size-fits-all ticket into the middle class. It needs a plan paired with it to be of value.
Social media brought attention to and was even the force behind several social revolutions in the past 12 months. However, The Economist show that the use of social networks for societal change is nothing new, citing how Luther went viral in the 16th Century.
The rate of technological progress creates a strong urge to believe the world we live in today is unique and different from everything that’s come before, but looking at other periods of technological change in history reveal the similar routes revolutions take when new technological tools become available.
Modern society tends to regard itself as somehow better than previous ones, and technological advance reinforces that sense of superiority. But history teaches us that there is nothing new under the sun. Robert Darnton, an historian at Harvard University, who has studied information-sharing networks in pre-revolutionary France, argues that “the marvels of communication technology in the present have produced a false consciousness about the past—even a sense that communication has no history, or had nothing of importance to consider before the days of television and the internet.” Social media are not unprecedented: rather, they are the continuation of a long tradition. Modern digital networks may be able to do it more quickly, but even 500 years ago the sharing of media could play a supporting role in precipitating a revolution. Today’s social-media systems do not just connect us to each other: they also link us to the past.
(via The Economist)
Five musicians sharing a guitar: Somebody That I Used to Know – Walk off the Earth (Gotye – Cover) (by walkofftheearth)
Oh, the Places You’ll Go, recited by Burning Man goers (by Tedshots)
After organizing our bookshelf almost a year ago, my wife and I (Sean Ohlenkamp) decided to take it to the next level. We spent many sleepless nights moving, stacking, and animating books at Type bookstore in Toronto.
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Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.
I’m giving a few presentations for work at the end of this month. I’m nervous but hopeful that they’ll turn out better than this:
As much as I enjoyed this video, it was probably because it was a complete (yet well done) rip off of this video by Britanick.
via Mitch Joel
