Dec 1, 2008
The Future
Pundits are predicting that the first computer that will be at least as intelligent as a human will be built in 2010 and by 2049 a $1000 computer will outsmart the entire human race. But, this video is about more than that.
It tracks the shifts that are occurring today and extrapolates them into implications for those currently in high school and higher education. Think about it, if you start a technical degree this year, half of what you learn in that four-year course will be outdated before you reach the end of the third year. After all, it took radio 38 years to reach a 50 million audience, television 13 years, the internet 4 years, and Facebook achieved a market penetration that size in just 2 years.
In 1984, the year I started university, there were 1000 internet devices around the world (I certainly didn’t send an email till more than four years after that). By 1992, that number was 1,000,000. Today, there are at least a billion internet devices and that number will inevitably rise as people with at least one personal computer augment their connectivity with more and more mobile devices, such as smart phones, android phones, tablets, slates, iPads, iPods iPhones etc.
The video was produced by the zyOzy Foundation, which believes that the themes in the “Did You Know?” video are global in nature and apply to schools and children around the world.
Since when does truth ever become outdated? It’s only fallacy that needs to be corrected.
Technological innovations provide more precise means to investigate physical phenomena. Beyond that, we already know how to prevent most chronic diseases although, because of wrongheaded dietary advice from our government, most people consume too much of the foods that do not furnish proper nourishment.
In the future, access to powerful genetic analysis tools will likely help health experts determine what sort of diet one ought to consume to promote sound health and , in some cases prevent a genetic disorder from expressing itself. Alcoholism comes to mind.
Yes, just watch out that your calculator doesn’t start telling you what time you can eat and sleep…
My calculator predicted that pundits would predict this.
I’m definitely looking forward to the fun. :)
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