Hi, As I reread Minds on Fired AGAIN I keep identifying new trends and monumental shifts that are occurring and twenty years from now we will look back and use these models to teach marketing, psychology and sociology in our ever changing universities. Last night I was reading the supply push versus demand pull and remembered years ago in my undergrad program learning those in relation to marketing and inventory management theories. Thanks to Sam Walton, yes, Walmart's founder, who applied Just in Time inventory methods JIT to transform how inventories are managed. At the time, no one knew that the economy as society knew it was transforming. I have been pondering the widespread events of this technological transformation and realized this forward motion would only stop if there was a major catastrophy due to technology, and enormous crime event, or that the medical warnings of cell phone usage and wireless waves was really proved true. I wondered what medical changes would be occurring in our society and envisioned that AA would not include some form of Mobile Anonymous. I saw this News article that was just posted and included the link as it appears new medical labels are being generated for internet abuse and addiction. Makes sense it would begin with teens. http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/teendepressionlinkedtointernetoveruse
As educators, are we preparing for this aspect as well? Are we just jumping on the bandwagon to catch up, without keeping a contingency plan or safety net? I just wondered what would happen if twenty years from now if we forced our young into a new array of health problems, depression, obesity, ADHD and other sensory issues based on the requirement that they always have to be online?
What are your thoughts?
Brooke
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