Props to Orli Yakuel at Go2Web2 for posting this today. This great YouTube video is one of those stats-speculation-futurism messages about information, set to music.
The shifthappens video was created a year ago but posted to YouTube in June 2007.
The video—created by XPLANE, a visualization company in Portland, St. Louis and Madrid—originated from a discussion about how to best educate future adults in this ever-changing world. It has been used as a starting point for many discussions on the subject of information, education and technology over the past year. As of June 14, there is a new wiki run by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod to serve as a repository of information about this video and possibly the insights and outcomes resulting from it.
Maybe rather than having everyone read a book over the summer, this Did You Know? video should be watched and discussed at the IU School of Informatics new student orientation in August. It pretty much sums up the challenge informatics is here to address and offers an opportunity to point the conversation toward how it impacts our philosophy of education at all levels. And what better way to show how Web 2.0 savvy we are here in Indiana than working in small groups to summarize our reflective discussions on the wiki.