Siddharth Rajsekar traces how school was built to produce factory workers, then evolved through five economic eras: the 1950s workforce era, mid-century consumerism, the 1980s-2000s software boom, the 2000s information age of Google and Amazon, and the 2010s smartphone era that rewired how younger generations actually learn.
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2010 to 2020
Siddharth Rajsekar (video titled 'School Was Built for Workers #shorts')
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Our education system was designed to create more workers for the workforce. But then after 1950s, 1960s, we saw the next era, which was the distribution era. The ones that controlled wealth are the ones who had multiple outlets. We saw this whole consumerism boom across the world. And then we came into the 80s and 90s, which was a technology era. So those who were able to build applications, build softwares. And it was the rise of the software engineers. This was the entire 90s and 2000s was a boom of the software engineer. And the era after that, going from technology to information era, the era where the Internet became big, early 2000s. Now, instead of going and reading from textbooks, people would go and learn directly online. They would go to Google and get all the information that they want. Google became the biggest company, started around that point of time. Even Amazon started around that time. And then from the information era, we move to the next era, the information Entertainment era. From 2010 to 2020, we saw the rise of Internet bandwidth. We saw more and more smartphones coming into the market. Before that, it was just button phones. And the way people would learn would not be in classrooms, but people would be learning on their phone itself. And it happened right through 2010 to 2020. So even if you look at the way the next generation is learning, it's way different compared to when I was growing up, where there was no.