Does this video scare you, or get you really excited for the future?
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get’s me excited about the future – though I also think that some of the implications are off a bit.
- we need to figure out how to delete/edit information at a rapid pace as well – i.e. not all the information being created is “new” – and much of it is directly replacing/superceding older information
- I pretty much would never suggest (or rarely) suggest that someone pursue a long, purely technical degree – rather I’d suggest that they learn the theory and learn how to learn (which can be by studying many fields) – and then expect to constantly have to map older theory to newer tools & technologies – and to periodically relearn “how” to do things (i.e. agile development, component based programming etc)
But still all in all – a good video indeed.
Shannon
definitely makes one stop and think …
Definitely retarded.
where will the electricity come from?
I might say that this video is a little bit intriguing about the future.
I reckon one of the growing trend in the near future is the medical market that will start to develop “enhancing brain capabilities” pill or studies that will evolve only on technics of how to learn and studies. Whoever develop a medical treatement that allow us to computer faster, remember more and study better will become rich.
It’s obvious than in 50-60 years, we will not be able to process the information we are generating, and we can see glimpse of this happening today. When students try to do homework, they usually multi-task while doing them (watch TV, read a blog, socialise via Myspace and google the homework) in order to be more productive.
While they think they are more productive and they are happy they did a lot, what they dont understand yet, is that they acquire a very shallow piece of information instead of doing a deep research and analysis.
Which is why i think that in term of old generation we are starting to be “stupid” and “ignorant”, but my question is can we really judge the youth of today with the old generation standards? Can we really say that its better to excel and master one technique than knowing diverse technique and not mastering them?
I’ve seen many coders who masters an old language that became obsolete, you can understand why no one hires them, while i’ve seen many teenagers coding which never master their language and evolve with the progress of this language.
Whoever will succeed is the one who can evolve and study everyday something new and has an adaptation ability, even if this means he will never master a field of knowledge.
…doesn’t scare you so much if you turn the OTT muscic off! Some of the figures are a bit vague…
doesn’t have the same effect without Al Gore presenting it
To me this video makes me thing we need to do a better job teaching statistics. A good number of the stats in this presentation were badly interpreted.
For example, just because a lot of new information is created each year does not necessarily mean that what a student learns in their first year of college becomes outdated by the third. This ignores the fact that new information often builds on the old, meaning that a student may find there is more depth in their field of study when they graduate than when they began but not necessarily that what they learned in their first year is now obsolete.
And lets not even get started on all the problems with that data on China and India vis a vis the US. This presentation is filled with these kinds of misinterpretations, I hope a lot of people who see this are able to tell that.
I had no idea that MySpace was bigger than all but 10 countries in the world.
Also, I hope I’m around to see that $1000 computer in 2049 that’s smarter than the entire human race combined. If the Technological Singularity ends up being real, and if is, I think it’s going to arrive in my lifetime, the world is going to become a very interesting place.
nice ‘Last of the Mohicans’ soundtrack in the background…. done on purpose?
There’s more info on this presentation here:
http://snipurl.com/1d5am
It is possible to over-simplify these things, eg comparisons are fraught with danger; computer/human brain; counties with and without the rule of law; economic output. IMHO only a few predictions can be made with certainty on the global scene:
The US will be the unassailable world hyper-power, militarily and economically for decades to come; Europe (including the UK) is a busted flush; falling native populations and inevitably due to fall into the sphere of influence of extreme Islam. China will rise, but undergo revolutions. India will rise, hampered by socialism, but will form a hugely strong alliance with the US. Technology will ensure that humans the world over will become both more trivial and more divorced from reality. They will be woken up by a nuclear explosion, probably accompanied by invasion; the utterly predictable event they have failed to predict. Solar power, long the negected poor relation, will be universal. After a hundred years of an orgy of vested-interests, man-made global warming will be proved to be an absurd chimera and the
studies of the human behavioral psychology that treated it will be studied for centuries. Russia will collapse through drink, corruption, people failing to have children and pressure from China, which will probably one day own it.
Yo Charles. Right on. Nice video but some of the jumps in logic could qualify for the Olympics.
It’s exciting and scary at the same time.
The guy that put the video together is a teacher in Minnesta by the name of Karl Fisch who had put together the presentation for his high school class at Arapahoe High to prepare his students for living in the future.
Karl’s got a good blog called http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/ that provides information on his presentations (he’s got 2 other great videos) as well as chronicles the efforts to revolutionize the curricula in our high schools and colleges through what they’re calling School 2.0. Good stuff.
Hey, those free 1.3 acre lots in the middle of nowhere Alaska are sounding really good right about now. If only the fiber ran up there.
Are the rights cleared on the soundtrack?
No, the clip didn’t scare me anymore, because I teach at a Chinese University where the students surprise me all the time with new and fresh ideas.
Now they have launched an ambitious new Web 2.0 concept, called “The Trekker Diaries”.
It’s an interactive adventure published twice a week. The readers influence the story by voting and then it’s published in English.
There is also a lot of additional readings about contemporary China, background information, a discussion forum and other material. The venture is non-commercial but the obvious aim is to overcome the tight censorship and give the – so far unheard – voice to the Chinese young people. The story looks pretty innocent but everyone tries to find “hidden messages” between the lines.
The English pages are at: http://www.kremtrekker.com
Dr. M G Gronroos
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What a wonderful time to be young. I am sure someone said that 70 years ago when I was young because of new inventions such as TV…the refinement of ship and airplane design…rockets, etc., etc. A message to the young people of today….’be a sponge and soak it all up’.
Just a note that Karl Fisch is a teacher at Arapahoe High School in Colorado not Minnesota
FYI, a new version (Did You Know? 2.0) is now available:
http://tinyurl.com/2mbgnx
Who do I call about getting that 6:07 seconds of my life back. That BLEW!