The Age of Hyper-Learning has Arrived

The ability to think and reflect is key to leveraging whatever we have learned and the mind has to often work like an orchestra. It needs to maintain the symphony by extracting the right ‘notes’ from every subject we know and condensing it into a meaningful series of information that can then be used to take decisions.

- Rajesh Nair

The importance of learning has never been dim. Right from the time we enter the portals of kindergarten, to the brick walls of higher learning institutions to the places of work, we have always been urged, cajoled and often motivated to learn new concepts and new ways of doing things. While the foundations were key in schools and not much has changed in the content and the basics, the subsequent specialisations have undergone a serious change. As a third generation engineer by qualification, I often quote how the science and the pedantic of engineering had not really changed over the times of my grandfather and then my father. But what the current generation learns has technology in a different dimension. Digital was a futuristic buzzword of the past and now, it is often the synopsis of our lives – personal and professional. From the basic electronics of the past to the complex circuitry of today, we use newer technologies for everything. While the debate on whether there is too much technology is on, there is no question that everyone – every single human being needs to have some access to it and we can no more chide it – calling it the ‘millennial thing’!