With rapid advances in technology knowledge has become a disposal commodity. What was known yesterday has been replaced. What worked last year, now fails. Knowledge became less important than the ability to learn. Product life cycles are measured in months, not years.
Designs are now obsolete about the time that production begins.
Learning to Learn Five years ago, the Internet was little more than an academic novelty. Few knew what a web address was for, nonetheless, spending millions of dollars to advertise them. Today, the Internet pervades our everyday life. In a mere five years, DVD, digital cameras, DSS, WEB-TV, and PDAs came from nowhere to become mainstream products. Who knows what products will take their places in just five more years.