Watch New ‘Shift Happens’ World & Internet Facts Video | Life is Changing Fast

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Watch the latest version of the ‘Shift Happens’ from The Economist, updated for autumn 2009, and sit back in amazement at the way the world is changing.

To say the world is changing ‘fast’ seems like a major understatement given some of the facts cited in this video.

Who would have thought there would be a Guinness World Record for texting a 160-character text the fastest?

All these facts and figures are pretty amazing, but I would like more research to be done on how this is affecting our behaviour and psychology as humans.

Is all this social media and rapidly advancing technology helping us or hurting us?

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