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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 21:46:10 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "If you aren’t relearning how to learn, you aren’t really learning!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   Let's go back for a moment to item **#3** on my list of '25 Strategies for 2025" - which was to be relentless in knowledge discovery. As I wrote, we are seeing massive growth in the generation of information.

   - the total amount of digital data created worldwide doubled approximately every two years in the 2010s and early 2020s

   - scientific research publications have been growing at a rate of about 8-9% per year, doubling roughly every 9 years

   - in emerging technology fields like machine learning and genomics, the volume of research papers is doubling approximately every 2-3 years

   - in many scientific fields, about half of what we know today was discovered in the last 15-20 years

   - the average half-life of professional skills has dropped from about 10-15 years to 5 years, meaning skills learned today may be only half as valuable in 5 years

   One of our key goals every day, as we use search engines, is to learn how to turn this vast trove of information into actual knowledge. Without that, this is just a lot of information.

   Most of us turn to Google to do that - it's still the most popular search engine out there. And yet, many people (or most people?) are very frustrated, as the typical search results page is full of unwanted information. A typical search results page is now just full of sponsored results, advertising links, information summaries, and more.
    
   Enter Kagi - a paid search engine. I was drawn to it after a recent post in which the founder was interviewed. He was explaining in eloquent detail the problem with Google, Bing, and the other main search engines - the fact that the search results page is just too full of clutter.

   I was intrigued and decided to give it a try.

   Learn more about what I learned by using it.

   **#Learning** **#Knowledge** **#Innovation** **#Growth** **#Technology** **#Search** **#Information** **#AI** **#Discovery** **#Adaptation**

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   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/01/daily-inspiration-knowledge-careers-if-you-arent-relearning-how-to-learn-you-arent-really-learning/