The hyperconnected world

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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 ...

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