The secret powers of time
Young people of today spend hours playing video games, surfing the internet and instant messaging or texting friends. These activities are all geared towards instant gratification. These kids live in a world they create and control. In many cases, these kids also lack human contact and social skills. They live for the moment, for the present, and not for the past of the future.
Most schools are characterised by a mainly analogue, one-sided and passive dispersion of knowledge. Schools are trying to make students more future orientated. Thus many young people find schools boring, with limited opportunities for control or input.
The results are a disaster in the making: Behaviour management issues in schools, as well as students dropping out of schools at a rate of one every nine seconds. We have to understand how technology is rewiring the brains of young people and society in general, to live for and crave control over only the present.
Watch this fantastic time-lapse video which clearly explains the impact of our changed perceptions of time, with the influence of technology in our daily lives.
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