Shift Happens

Shift Happens I learned a lot of new information from the Shift Happens video. This video opened my eyes to many new things. I learned that the United States is not necessarily the best country to live in and it is not the best at everything, far from it actually. India has more honors kids than United States has kids. I personally think this is very shocking because there is a ton of kids that live in the U.S. and the fact that India has more honors kids than the U.S. even has kids is just insane. Another piece of information I learned was that the top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t even exist in 2004. This basically means that students are being prepared for jobs that don’t even exist yet. I think this is pretty cool and it makes me happy that jobs are still being created because a lot of people will always be out of jobs and the fact that new ones are being created will help people out. One last piece of information I learned from the video would be that 1 in 8 couples married last year met online. I have some good and bad feelings about this piece of information. I think it’s good that people are finding people they can love in different ways and it’s helping them live their lives to the fullest but it seems that more people nowadays are living online. I think that people that live online are scared of the real world. If you can meet someone online you should just as easily be able to meet someone in real life. Some implications I got from this about my future and career would be that it might be smart to go into some career to do with business or technology because those seem to be the fastest growing things. One thing that stood out to me was that there is a prediction that a super computer will be built by 2013 that exceeds the computational capabilities of the entire human species. Technology keeps getting better and this means that it would be an awesome career field to go into to. Another implication about my future from the video is that the job I