{"id":17836,"date":"2014-01-06T20:51:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T20:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?p=953"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:24:01","slug":"top-three-nine-shift-stories-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/top-three-nine-shift-stories-of-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Three Nine Shift Stories of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Top Three Stories of 2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/theend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-954\" alt=\"theend\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/theend.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\nMore than 2,000 visited our <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nineshift.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NineShift blog<\/a> in the last month to read the Top 10 Stories of 2013.\u00a0 Here are the top three stories of 2013:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nineshift.com\/2013\/12\/3-the-end-of-text-based-online-courses.html\"><b>#3 The End of Text Based Online Courses<\/b><\/a><b><\/b><br \/>\nThis was the year every online expert endorsed multi-media in online courses.<br \/>\nOnline courses are on their way to being 50 percent of how we learn in this century, from Kindergarten (before actually) through the rest of our lives.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s not just about education.\u00a0 Multi-media now established as a principal way we communicate, with each other, in marketing, in our personal lives.<br \/>\nIn 1913 movies made the same shift. Before 1913 movies were just stage plays on film. In 1913 the first action movies were made.\u00a0 Today, as 100 years ago, we make a big leap forward in the new century.<br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nineshift.com\/2013\/12\/2-end-of-the-auto-age.html\">#2 End of the Auto Age<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/autoage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-782\" alt=\"Nine Shift\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/autoage-300x211.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/b><b><\/b><br \/>\nDriving is now in decline. But it&#8217;s more than that. It&#8217;s the end of a way of life.<br \/>\n*In 2013 we learned only old people buy cars.<br \/>\n*Americans spend $100 billion a year just on auto insurance. We found out in the last month the auto insurance industry is now desperate to keep older people driving.<br \/>\n*In 2013 our NineShift prediction of last January came true: the first report came out that there is no solution to Highway Funding.<br \/>\n*This was the first year Baby Boomers, who want to live forever, became visibly aware of the terrible risk of death driving on our highways.<br \/>\n*It was the first year in which ROI stats (new jobs created) was calculated for light rail stations. It&#8217;s over folks.<br \/>\n<b>#1 On the Edge of History\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/depot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-955\" alt=\"depot\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/depot.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/b><br \/>\nWe are on the edge of history. Go into any one of dozens of train stations around the United States: they are under construction, housed in temporary quarters, or being\u00a0renovated.<br \/>\nBut in just a few months these train stations will be\u00a0renovated\u00a0&#8211; and busy.\u00a0 Busy for\u00a0the rest of the 21st Century, the rest of your life, your children&#8217;s lives, and your grandchildren&#8217;s lives.<br \/>\nNot just trains, but a whole way of life is now changing rapidly.<br \/>\nPhoto: The train station in St. Paul, Minnesota, is newly\u00a0renovated, beautiful, and empty. When\u00a0Amtrak starts service there again in a few months it will be busy for the rest of our lives.<br \/>\nFor all Top 10 Stories of 2013, plus the first of our Predictions for 2014, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Blog.NineShift.com\">http:\/\/www.Blog.NineShift.com<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Three Stories of 2013\u00a0 More than 2,000 visited our NineShift blog in the last month to read the Top 10 Stories of 2013.\u00a0 Here are the top three stories of 2013: #3 The End of Text Based Online Courses This was the year every online expert endorsed multi-media in online courses. 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