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China and the World.

  • Date Submitted: 07/05/2010 06:27 AM
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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
-Robert Frost
Wake up! The new world beckons.
Times are changing and you better cope with adapting to this change, else you shall be left behind in this rat-race of mankind. World is changing! It is changing fast! We are looking at and preparing for jobs and problems that don’t even exist. The era of communication is here. 7 billion humans inhabit the earth today and they face problems that did not exist about a decade back. The postulates of Darwin’s theories prove themselves. Struggle for existence; Survival of the fittest. Today, my nationality or my background doesn’t count. What counts is my intellect and intelligence.

You probably know about The Matrix. If not, then I hope you do know the red pill/blue pill metaphor. If you know neither, then you certainly need to wake up from your dream and read this article.
"You take the blue pill, the story ends; you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
                                                                                                                                              – The Matrix
I hope you’ll take the red pill.
When I say that we are living in exponential times, I mean it literally. The technical information is doubling every two years. That means for a student starting a four year degree, more than half of what he learns in the first year will be outdated by the third. The amount of unique data to be generated this year is estimated to be more than what has been generated in the past 5,000 years! We are preparing for jobs that don’t even exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented. We are preparing to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet. According to Richard Riley, the former secretary of education, U.S.A, the top 10 in demand...

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