Inspiration Monthiles Eddie Obeng Pentacle Jan 2009

Open Source Education - Free Learning real results EDDIE OBENG

Open Source Education - Free Learning real results

Evolving for the World After Midnight

Or What Darwin actually meant

Who am I?

Old World
Time Rate of Learning Pace of Change New World Change WorldAfterMidnight.com Past Now

Strangely enough Darwin NEVER actually used the expression “survival of the fittest”

I can’t feel change so it isn’t happening
We are not at rest! The Earth turns once a day at over 1000 miles/hour on the equator.
We orbit the Sun at 18.6 miles/sec and the Milky Way galaxy at 140 miles/sec.
We're approaching the Virgo super-cluster at 150 miles/sec, and we're zooming towards the constellation Leo at nearly 400 miles/sec relative to the cosmic microwave background radiation .
The bigger the scale, the greater our speed, but everything is moving together, so we don't notice. Our occasional motions along local earthquake faults are much more noticeable!

Conclusion
Unlearn everything

We can understand something new without expanding our knowledge and concepts

Conclusion
Unlearn everything

Old maths works everywhere

Conclusion
Financial risk probably can’t be calculated

The survivor really is fit

Conclusion
Global competition may not be the panacea people think it is

Evolution is in a static environment "Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

Conclusion
In a complex system you can expect intervention will usually lead to unlikely consequences
Anything which looks static is probably dynamically stable
Be careful of solutions without a bubble diagram

Conclusion
Global competition may not be the panacea people think it is in fact it could be damaging our survival
Interest rates are unsustainable
Saving money for the future is impossible

Last year 57 people in the UK were killed by their underpants

Conclusion
It is probably impossible to act rationally on perceptions of risk

Which is more dangerous to >10yr old US children? or

Test
Which game would you choose?
A Heads = £500,000 Tails = £1,000,000?
B
Heads = 20,000,000 Tails = £0

Conclusion
It is probably impossible to act rationally on perceptions of risk

Choices
To make our real world work FOR us we need to forget many of the things we knew and focus on our new rules

Change New Rules for the New World New Rules for the New World :-

Questions?
Thank you!

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