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In 2006, Karl Fisch made a PowerPoint for a faculty meeting at Arapahoe High School. Scott McLeod remixed it, and "Did You Know? / Shift Happens" went on to become one of the most widely shared education videos of all time. It asked a simple question: what does it mean to prepare kids for a world that's changing this fast?
Twenty years later, the world has changed again. This is an update for our moment with the rise of AI, how students are really using it, how fast the technology is improving, what's happening to work, and what all of it means for the kids starting kindergarten this fall.
I’m very invested in this as both an educator, but also a Dad to five kids. One who is graduating high school this year, and one who is just starting Kindergarten.
To put it all in perspective, the first "Did You Know?" took hours and hours to make. This one took a few minutes with AI. The question isn't whether AI can do the work. It's whether our kids can still do the thinking.
Made in honor of the original, with deep gratitude to Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod (and to Jeff Brenman and XPLANE, who worked on later versions). Every question this update asks, they asked first.
Watch the original: Did You Know; Shift Happens - Globalizatio...
SOURCES
Original video
• "Did You Know? / Shift Happens" (2006), created by Karl Fisch, adapted by Scott McLeod; later versions with Jeff Brenman and XPLANE. Licensed CC BY-NC-SA.
• Did You Know; Shift Happens - Globalizatio...
• Karl Fisch, The Fischbowl: https://thefischbowl.blogspot.com
• Scott McLeod, Dangerously Irrelevant: https://dangerouslyirrelevant.org
Internet access (1 in 6 online in 2005; 6 billion online and 2.2 billion offline in 2025)
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Facts and Figures 2025 and historical ICT statistics: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statisti...
ChatGPT's growth (launch Nov. 30, 2022; 100 million users in ~2 months; Instagram took ~2.5 years)
• Reuters, "ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base – analyst note" (Feb. 2023): https://www.reuters.com/technology/ch...
900 million weekly ChatGPT users (Feb. 2026)
• TechCrunch, "ChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users" (Feb. 27, 2026): https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/cha...
2.5 billion prompts a day (≈29,000 per second, our calculation)
• The Verge, "OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts every day" (July 2025): https://www.theverge.com/news/710867/...
Teens and AI (54% use chatbots for schoolwork; ~1 in 10 for most or all of it; 59% say AI cheating is common at their school; 64% of teens use chatbots vs. 51% of parents who think their teen does)
• Pew Research Center, "How Teens Use and View AI" (Feb. 24, 2026): https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/...
AI companions (72% of teens have tried one; 1 in 3 users have chosen AI over a person for a serious conversation)
• Common Sense Media, "Talk, Trust, and Trade-Offs: How and Why Teens Use AI Companions" (July 2025): https://www.commonsensemedia.org/pres...
AI capabilities (4 in 5 university students use generative AI; 88% of organizations use AI; coding benchmark from ~60% to near 100% in a year; top AI reads analog clocks correctly ~half the time; limited rigorous evidence on AI and learning outcomes)
• Stanford HAI, 2026 AI Index Report: https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...
Task length doubling (2 seconds in 2019 to ~12 hours in early 2026; doubling every ~7 months, ~4 months since 2023)
• METR, "Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks" (Mar. 2025): https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-meas...
• METR, Time Horizon 1.1 update (Jan. 2026) and current estimates: https://metr.org/horizon-chart-embed
The future of work (170 million jobs created, 92 million displaced by 2030; 22% churn; 39% of core skills changing; fastest-growing roles)
• World Economic Forum, The Future of Jobs Report 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/...
Figures are the most recent available as of September 2026.
A.J. Juliani