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We stand at the precipice of a monumental change. The recent rapid development in information technologies has brought about unforseen changes in human society. An emerging global consciousness, fundamental shifts in human economies, shifting concepts of self and identities; these are just some of the changes that are staring the human society in its face. More urgently though, is how we can adapt some of our fundamental activities to adapt to the shifting societal fabric caused by the eruption of information technologies. In this book, the author examined the activity of Learning against this grand backdrop by looking at the nature of Learning and how it has been changed by the sea change in the field of information technology.

How Xian Neng is a Malaysian Chinese. Born and raised at one of the crossroads of the world, he has been exposed to a multitude of languages and dialects since his youth. However, his formal training with languages began during his study in the National University of Singapore, where he learned how to communicate with computers using programming languages as a computer science students. After his graduation, he worked for 4 years as a programmer. Communicating with machines did not satisfy him, however, and he left the field of programming to embark on a great exploration of life. During his journey, he realized that his activities kept bringing him back to the importance of language and he eventually became a dedicated language worker: teaching, translating, writing and researching. He now intends to see the world with his own eyes and hear the languages of the world with his own ears, and then transforms what he has observed into works that are both accessible and meaningful.