These statistics may be from 2008, but they are shocking nonetheless.

Throw your assumptions about job security, education, and technology out the window.

I’ve always heard the saying “We are living in a information age,” but it never really hit me until I saw this video. The fact that just a mere weeks worth of New York Times newspapers contain more information than you would ever learn in the 18th century is astounding.

Not only has information increased and become more widely available, but the spread of it has also increased. For college students like me, this means that many of the technical skills I learn in my classes will be useless by the time I graduate.

Then again, who really needs obsolete skills for obsolete jobs? I’m one of the many banking on the fact that my future job hasn’t even been created.