Week 1- It all starts here

In our first lesson after the icebreakers and going through the coruse outline, we explored the idea of how fast the world is changing and the factors that contributed to the change watching "Guns, Germs and Steel"

"Whatever I learn might be outdated by the time I am year 3" This was the interesting observation which stuck in my head even after the end of the lesson. How can technology change so fast? I might be wasting my money in university! Well of course not. I will learn skills to ride the change and might even be an innovator.

The main take away points from the first lesson were that we have to be open to change and keep up to date with technology. Because technology keeps changing, we should not just acquire knowledge (as that keeps changing) but more cruicially develop the skills such as creative thinking, being able to see emerging trends and being entrepreneurial to cope with the evolving society.

A few weeks before the first lesson, I listened to a entrepreneur pitching his idea. This statement was in-sync with the concept I learnt in the first session. He said: "People are moving from an internet based society to an Apps based world". He was from a new start-up company trying to get fund for their application based game for Iphones, Ipads and Android systems.

I was taken aback after listening to that statment. Most of us are still trying to learn how we can fully utilise the internet and what we are learning is already moving on the downward trend. As of today, Apps have already overtaken internet and its usership will still continue grow and thus I will like to explore this idea that Applications are the new in thing and the possibility of making money from it.

 The diagram below shows a comparison between the usage of mobile Apps vs web consumption. It shows the upward trend of consumers spending time on Apps.

 Probably in the next "shift happens" video, we will likely see more about Apps.

I would rate the first lesson a 6/10. Although we went through interesting concepts like the speed of changes in the world, we had to go through the course outline which was fundamental but dry.