When watching this video it truly puts into perspective how big the world really is, and how each person, though only playing a tiny role, helps to create what the world has become today. These changes are manifesting our worlds the same way it manifested our parents, grandparents, etc. Most of our parents had to learn to use computers when it first came out; when our kids are in their teens, I'm sure there will be some kind of technology that they are using in school that we will also have to learn.
This is a scary idea, but I do not know if there is anything we can do to prepare for it. If we are training our children for jobs that do not even exist yet, how will we know what to change? All we can do is encourage our children to learn everything they can to the best of their abilities, and hope they remember us when they are successful.
In one of the slides it spoke about a supercomputer, which is not even built yet, that will be able to exceed the computation capability the human brain. I recently read a novel titled "The Footprints of God", by Greg Iles, which was about a supercomputer and the capabilities it had that went beyond the human brain. This novel was copyrighted in 2003, which means all these "crazy" ideas already exist, and if they exist they will one day be a reality.
With all this in mind, I don't know if we can prepare for these changes. The best thing we can do is keep on truckin'. When these changes come about, we will have to keep an open mind about them and adapt to the changes as best as we can.
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Some may argue that the structure we know today as school prepares kids to be successful in 1980. If we want to prepare kids for the 21st century, what structures (time/content/skills) might change, even if we don;t know the outcome yet?
I feel the same frustration; how can we prepare kids for things that do not exist? Don't good teachers prepare lessons that have a clear objective? WOW. What are we to do?
I also agree with what you said about teaching all we can and hoping they get it all.
I'd like to add that maybe we can teach them how to deal with change and uncertainty as well.
The supercomputer freaked me out too. Once we have a computer that can exceed the capability of the human brain, what comes next? Will computers replace humans? That made me think of a worse theory...if computers will soon be able to do more than a human can, why try to develop as a human? I know that is severe but is it?
I agree it is a hard task to prepare our children for the future, but we need to teach our children the skills in order to survive and teach them how to change these skills to fit in with the times. Just like article we read about New-Fist. The people were taught how to do certain things and as the times changed some people realized that you can use the same skills, but how you go about using them needs to change.
I do agree with you that having a computer that will surpass the human brain is a very scary thought. If this is what is being thought up today in 2007 what will happen by 2050?
i too was struck by the comments about the supercomputer. It's hard to imagine a man made object that can compute more than the entire human race. But where can technology go from there? how much is gained from having a computer that is twice as smart as the human race? So long as technology does not bring progress on human terms, there will always be a disconnect...and frustration on the part of many.
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