ABSTRACT
Building on Chapter 5, the text briefly maps how, in less than twenty years, we have gone from a handful of websites, following the work of Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues at CERN, to everything being accessible in digital format by default. Using this understanding of digital formats, the chapter explores how in the digital domain content becomes manipulable and non-linear and what that means for learning. Building on that discussion, the text then explores what the rise of personal mobile devices has meant for the way people access content and, therefore, learning. Finally, the chapter reflects on how people inherently find change difficult and reflects back on the pace of change and places that within the context of peoples’ careers, drawing on data from the Office for National Statistics to ask some questions for reflection.
