Upending the Infodemic Curve through Documentation and Productivity Tools

Simply put, we have progressed from a linear, low-tech and trainer-led instructional space (Education 1.0) to a democratised, interactive, flexible, feedback-oriented, tech-enabled and learner-centric enterprise (Education 4.0 and Education 5.0).

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has just made it more convincing that the predictions of the Knowledge Doubling Curve will be fulfilled sooner than later.

Seconds drag for a drowning man; years fly for an investor racing against time. Where do you stand as a student of history, life, and the revolutionary technological megatrends currently unfolding before our very eyes? Your New Year Resolutions for 2023 are now shaping up against the harsh realities of time, aren’t they? It has been well said that we tend to overestimate what we can achieve in a day and underestimate what we can achieve in a year.

Ever heard of “infodemic”? Look it up! This is a new social and knowledge-related pandemic. What are the implications of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) for the future of education and work?

Education has evolved through various stages that scholars refer to in their signature lingo as directed transfer, progressivism, and co-constructivism among others. Simply put, we have progressed from a linear, low-tech and trainer-led instructional space (Education 1.0) to a democratised, interactive, flexible, feedback-oriented, tech-enabled and learner-centric enterprise (Education 4.0 and Education 5.0). Technology has been the engine driving the fast evolution. COVID-19 has been the accelerator fuelling the faster and at times involuntary push to conform to new ways of teaching and learning.

GAI has just made it more convincing that the predictions of the Knowledge Doubling Curve will be fulfilled sooner than later. The curve postulated that knowledge in the 21st century would soon double in a matter of days, then hours, as opposed to taking years the way it was decades ago. In a world overflowing with information and accelerated access to knowledge, thanks to technological innovation, only purposeful learners can thrive as authentic knowledge leaders.

Technology, as such, is your frenemy; it is a friend and force for good…