The hyperconnected world

In this article, Thomas L. Friedman highlights how today’s hyperconnected world requires white-collar workers to compete with a bigger pool of cheap geniuses, some of whom are robots, microchips and soft-ware guided machines. Thanks to iphones, Facebook, Skype, amongst others. Just under a decade ago, the connected world was a challenge to blue-collar workers. Thanks to globalization, outsourcing and the internet. Thomas L Friedman points out that for us teachers, the challenge is to inspire our students to be the ’better’ and ‘best’ people in today’s hyperconnected world. Read the article here ...