This project began with an interest of the public education system. My preliminary research had an underlying assertion that the K-12 system is not preparing children for the workforce; in other words, there is a dichotomy between how we teach kids in school and how we expect them to perform in the workforce. The challenge became how to visually portray this shortfall of the education system, in a way that somehow proves it.
I decided to approach this dilemma indirectly; by looking at the general trend of the concept of knowledge, the poster visually reveals that it historically takes about 300 years for our understanding of knowledge to adapt to a communication change. Since the electronic medium is relatively new, not even society has adapted a suitable understanding of knowledge, and hence the education system (being a social construct) is not able to sufficiently prepare kids for the change that is occurring.
A simple historical trend becomes glaringly obvious when visualized on a timeline. It speaks to the viewer by placing all this fast-pace change since the Internet in context with the history of the world.
