The necessity to intertwine learning, working, and collaboration results from the growing recognition that in the information age, change is unavoidable and obsolescence is guaranteed. Learning can no longer be considered a process that occurs only in schools. We have to think of learners not as being inherently isolated but rather as having to learn to make new, different, and strategic uses of the sources of information around them. Limitations of the Individual, Unaided Human Mind 2.1. There is only so much we can remember and there is only so much we can learn.
Talented people require approximately a decade to reach top professional proficiency.
With powerful technologies becoming widely available, people take on more complex jobs. Therefore, they need help in accomplishing unfamiliar tasks that are part of an expanded job. Beyond the need for new and changing domain knowledge, there is also a large demand for new tool knowledge. Distributed Cognition Learning is part of living, a natural consequence of being alive and in touch with the world, and not a process separate from the rest of life. Acquiring knowledge cannot be restricted to obtaining a prescribed education at a given time.