Timeline
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Debrief
MK: Turn the person next to you and discuss some aspects of 1980
- Self fulfillment
- Boycott of Olympics in Russia
- A lot more information with cable TV and computers
- High interest rates
- We were in a recession then
- Open classrooms
- Government more conservative
- Farm crisis and farm aid
- Introduction of AIDS and new diseases
- News was shared faster through TV and CNN
- Material Girl
- In Moscow where I lived all through the 80s, there was no big hair and it was just the opposite of all the things mentioned. As we grow more multi-cultural, we have to realize that we don’t all have the same experiences
MK: Now let’s share the world of 2000
- 9/11
- Millennium
- World got flatter
- Cell phones became smaller
- Reality TV
- Put it out there thinking
- Internet
- Satellites
- Economy boom
- Dotcom bust
- Real estate boom
- Privacy concerns
- Let down for kids from the 80s, no flying cars
- Y2K
- Technology advances
- Jetson’s start to become reality
- Medical advances
- Education was moving to technical school and community colleges
- 911 brought on terrorism
- Security issues
- What is life like at high alert all the time? Stress
- More people have more access to more information and education
- Climate change focus
- Bigger spread between the haves and have nots
- Immigration issues
- Charters and alternatives to education flourished
- People have more information
- Shifting from blue collar to white collar
- Knowledge work from manual labor
- School shootings
- Women in more leadership roles
- Telecommuting
- A growing culture of instant gratification
- Change in CNN with the scroll under the main screen
- The split screen, multi-tasking
MK: Let’s shift to the world of 2020
- Age of workforce will be radically different
- LEED built in
- There will be more texting and more interaction between screens and less face to face
- 300 lbs will be the norm or we will figure out how to be healthy
- Instant gratification will increase
- A mature person is one who can delay their own gratification
- Student engagement will change as relevance becomes more important
- Information literacy becomes more important than content knowledge
- Single stream personalized screens
- Work, school, and medical histories and resumes will all be on a searchable database
- We’re not looking far enough. Most of these things are already happening. We shouldn’t have textbooks now.
- Re-emergent of the high touch. Not a denial of technology but a combination
- More involved in politics
- No newspapers or magazines
- I worry about our people in poverty. How will they have access to the things necessary for life?
- Reactivity against all the movement towards technology. Some people will say it’s going too far too fast and there will be a yearning for reconnection for being in person
- Shifts in spirituality
- Gas prices go up to $10-15/gallon and we’ll see more alternative fuels
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