We should teach as much about the future as we do about the past! This presentation makes that case and provides some mathematical concepts that help students forecast future values.
A presentation and forecasting session given by Elizabeth Merritt, founding director of the Center for the Future of Museums, and Peter Bishop, associate professor of strategic foresight at the University of Houston, at the 2010 Texas Association of Museums conference.
A presentation and forecasting session given by Elizabeth Merritt, founding director of the Center for the Future of Museums, and Peter Bishop, associate professor of strategic foresight at the University of Houston, at the 2010 Texas Association of Museums conference.
Energy, Externalities & Climate
Emissions & ExternalitiesMuch of energy produced and used in U.S. and around the world is from fossil fuelsBurning fossil fuels yield air-borne emissionsSO2NOxCH4VOCPM2.5Mercury (from coal)CO2
Emissions & ExternalitiesMuch of energy produced and used in U.S. and around the world is from fossil fuelsBurning fossil fuels yield air-borne emissionsSO2NOxCH4VOCPM2.5Mercury (from coal)CO2So??Damage to natural environment, cropsDamage to buildings, infrastructureMost important of all – ill health and even deathCO2 – greenhouse gas that can affect climate
EmissionsOK, sure there is some bad stuff coming from fossil fuels, but they yield a tremendous amount of valuable, low-cost energyThe economic problem is negative externalities. If the people who produce and/or consume fossil fuels actually (somehow) bear the costs and adverse consequences of emissions, then you could say the benefits of this energy outweigh the costs.But if NOT then this production/consumption imposes negative externalities on others. As a result, too many fossil fuels are produced and consumed.
Energy and the EnvironmentBefore Climate Change (BCC) EraMajor environmental challengesAcid rain – SO2 and NOx emissions from burning coalUrban smog and air pollution – mainly from NOx , PM, and VOC from cars/trucksPolicies in BCC EraClean Air Act Amendments of 1990Established EPA Acid Rain Program – Innovative Cap & Trade ProgramRestricted auto emissions via technology standards (e.g., catalytic converters), tighter CAFÉ standards, and blended fuel requirements
Energy and Climate Change
Energy and Climate ChangeProduction and consumption of fossil fuels results in greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions – mainly CO2 and CH4 (methane)The greenhouse effect from GhG emissions results in climate change – a multi-faceted impactHow has CO2 in atmosphere been changing?
Energy and Climate ChangeProduction and consumption of fossil fuels results in greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions – mainly CO2 and CH4 (methane)The greenhouse effect from GhG emissions results in climate change – a multi-faceted impactHow has CO2 in atmosphere been changing?And what are the impacts of this?
Economic Analysis of Environmental ImpactsBefore we go too far into climate issues, let’s look at how we can analyze environmental policy related to energy issues.And look at lessons from prior environmental policy efforts
Model of emissions regulationTwo sides of emissionsDamages – Changes in emissions result in marginal cost of emissionsFor CO2, we refer to MC of emissions as Social Cost of Carbon (SCC)“Benefits” – Emissions are a side-effect of productive economic activity (like burning natural gas to generate electricity)Marginal benefit (MB) of emissions is extra benefit as emissions increase.Mirror image of MB is marginal abatement cost of reducing emissions.
Managing Emissions Externalities
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Question 1 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a well known ic.docxamrit47
Question 1
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a well known icon around the world.
The Sydney Opera House is about 500m away and from it, the angle of elevation
to the top of the bridge is measured as 14°54' (to the nearest minute).
The place where this measurement is made is 1m above the water level.
On the other side of the harbour bridge, a second reading is taken from the second floor of a building
700m away and 20m above the water level. The angle of elevation is observed to be 9°15' (to the
nearest minute).
(a) Calculate an estimate of the height of the Harbour Bridge above the
water level.
(b) Discuss all possible errors in all measurements taken.
(c) Give a range for the maximum and minimum height.
Question 2
Three dice are thrown and the sum on the faces are recorded. This would
give values ranging from 3 (1-1-1) to 18 (6-6-6).
The experiment is run 300 times.
(a) Either carry out the experiment by rolling 3 dice, 300 times or use
Excel to simulate this experiment (Assistance is offered on how to do
this in a consultation session if required).
(b) Present the data in a table showing the frequency and cumulative
frequency columns.
(c) Compute the median, upper and lower quartiles
(d) Calculate the mean and standard deviation for the results of your
experiment either by the use of the stats mode on your calculcator
or using excel.
(e) Interprete the mean as an area and use Simpson’s Rule with 5 values,
to estimate the mean again, (using the median, the quartiles and the
upper and lower extremes of 3 and 18). Comment on how accurate
this is.
Question 3
People often are lost when it comes to knowing how much to
they can borrow to buy their homes.
Construct a simple spreadsheet application with the following
as input variables
The interest rate (% pa compounded monthly)
The amount to be borrowed.
The term in years of the loan.
The combined salary of the people buying the house.
The output of the calculator should include
(a) The monthly repayment for the loan.
(b) An estimate of when the loan would be half paid off.
(c) The percentage of the combined salary the repayment represents.
(d) The total interest paid out over the full term.
(e) The increase in repayment per month, should there be a 1% increase in interest rates.
(f) The decrease in the term if they switch to fortnightly repayments instead of monthly.
Present printouts for the following examples.
1. A couple on $150,000 wanting to borrow $500,000 over 30 years at 4.5% pa
2. A sole income earner on a salary of $80,000 wanting to borrow $200,000 over 25 years at 5% pa
3. A student earning $30,000 taking a share in a house requiring a loan (for his part) of $100,000
over 10 years at 6% pa.
Question 4
To make a rectangular grid of 2 rows of 3 squares requires 17 matches.
(a) How many matches would you need to make rectangular grids of m
rows of n squa ...
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This is follow-up from the IBM Almaden Sept 27th meeting on "Regional Upward Spirals: The Co-Evolution of Future Technologies, Skills, Jobs, and Quality-of-Life"
Slides from ICWSM'17 workshop on Social Media for Demographic Research (Montreal, May 2017)
Overview of demography
How can demographers contribute to the analysis of big data (social media)? How can social media contribute to population studies?
Concerns over data quality.
Data Revolution and the SDGs: overview and value, huge challenges for attaining a economic-demographic-
environment balance, and the urgent need for data scientists and demographers to work on these issues.
The topic is Self-Driving CarsAnalysis of Impact DraftTh.docxteresehearn
The topic is Self-Driving Cars
Analysis of Impact Draft
This week, you will submit your Analysis of Impact draft (roughly four pages, using APA format).
This portion of the Course Project provides an analysis of the chosen technology’s influence on society considering all of the following components:
Social
How has this technology been received, accepted, or rejected? Why? Is it feared or favored? What is the attitude toward change? How are the developers trying to sell the technology to the general public? Look at attitudes, feelings (emotions), behaviors, personality, and the ways humans change as a result of this technology. What is being thought, and why? Is the human mind impacted? How? Are interactions between people changing as a result? Who is included or excluded, and why? Use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Piaget, or some other theorist. What psychological needs are met by the technology (e.g., cell phones once granted status and now promote a sense of belonging or connectedness) or created by the technology? Consumerism?
Look at groups and organizations that have arisen and prospered because of this technology. Are these groups supportive or antagonistic, and why? (An example is genetically modified foods [GMOs] and the backlash against the Monsanto corporation. Another is cochlear implants that allow the deaf to hear yet reduce the deaf population that calls itself a community.) How does the technology change society, or how does society change in response to the technology? What factors in society led to the development in the first place? What do class, gender roles, race, norms, and the like mean in this context? Who will benefit from the technology, and who might be harmed (this might also belong in the ethics and morals section)? For example, prosthetics enable people to participate more fully and actively in society (some people compete in triathlons and marathons), and war has brought about the need for advances in prosthetic technology as casualties with missing limbs return home to the United States. Look at the workplace, new companies, and/or jobs created, jobs lost (or save this for the economics section, perhaps). Look at roles—subgroups, people’s interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships. Consider crime, healthcare, and schools. Surveillance cameras, for example, have recently been installed in New York City, and the result has been a decrease in the amount of crime, purse-snatching, pickpocketing, and so forth. Yet some fear the big-brother effect of always being watched and tracked, as well as concerns over “who will guard the guards.”
Cultural
This is a really important section. Consider the elements that comprise the culture and subcultures. Compare the United States' use of the technology with that of other nations around the world. What is it about Americans that brings about innovation, or has America declined in terms of technical innovation, scienti ...
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
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Analysis of Impact DraftThis week, you will submit your Ancheryllwashburn
Analysis of Impact Draft
This week, you will submit your Analysis of Impact draft (roughly four pages, using APA format).
This portion of the Course Project provides an analysis of the chosen technology’s influence on society considering all of the following components:
Social
How has this technology been received, accepted, or rejected? Why? Is it feared or favored? What is the attitude toward change? How are the developers trying to sell the technology to the general public? Look at attitudes, feelings (emotions), behaviors, personality, and the ways humans change as a result of this technology. What is being thought, and why? Is the human mind impacted? How? Are interactions between people changing as a result? Who is included or excluded, and why? Use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Piaget, or some other theorist. What psychological needs are met by the technology (e.g., cell phones once granted status and now promote a sense of belonging or connectedness) or created by the technology? Consumerism?
Look at groups and organizations that have arisen and prospered because of this technology. Are these groups supportive or antagonistic, and why? (An example is genetically modified foods [GMOs] and the backlash against the Monsanto corporation. Another is cochlear implants that allow the deaf to hear yet reduce the deaf population that calls itself a community.) How does the technology change society, or how does society change in response to the technology? What factors in society led to the development in the first place? What do class, gender roles, race, norms, and the like mean in this context? Who will benefit from the technology, and who might be harmed (this might also belong in the ethics and morals section)? For example, prosthetics enable people to participate more fully and actively in society (some people compete in triathlons and marathons), and war has brought about the need for advances in prosthetic technology as casualties with missing limbs return home to the United States. Look at the workplace, new companies, and/or jobs created, jobs lost (or save this for the economics section, perhaps). Look at roles—subgroups, people’s interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships. Consider crime, healthcare, and schools. Surveillance cameras, for example, have recently been installed in New York City, and the result has been a decrease in the amount of crime, purse-snatching, pickpocketing, and so forth. Yet some fear the big-brother effect of always being watched and tracked, as well as concerns over “who will guard the guards.”
Cultural
This is a really important section. Consider the elements that comprise the culture and subcultures. Compare the United States' use of the technology with that of other nations around the world. What is it about Americans that brings about innovation, or has America declined in terms of technical innovation, scientific research, and development? Look at advertising for the technology, th ...
Energy, Externalities & Climate
Emissions & ExternalitiesMuch of energy produced and used in U.S. and around the world is from fossil fuelsBurning fossil fuels yield air-borne emissionsSO2NOxCH4VOCPM2.5Mercury (from coal)CO2
Emissions & ExternalitiesMuch of energy produced and used in U.S. and around the world is from fossil fuelsBurning fossil fuels yield air-borne emissionsSO2NOxCH4VOCPM2.5Mercury (from coal)CO2So??Damage to natural environment, cropsDamage to buildings, infrastructureMost important of all – ill health and even deathCO2 – greenhouse gas that can affect climate
EmissionsOK, sure there is some bad stuff coming from fossil fuels, but they yield a tremendous amount of valuable, low-cost energyThe economic problem is negative externalities. If the people who produce and/or consume fossil fuels actually (somehow) bear the costs and adverse consequences of emissions, then you could say the benefits of this energy outweigh the costs.But if NOT then this production/consumption imposes negative externalities on others. As a result, too many fossil fuels are produced and consumed.
Energy and the EnvironmentBefore Climate Change (BCC) EraMajor environmental challengesAcid rain – SO2 and NOx emissions from burning coalUrban smog and air pollution – mainly from NOx , PM, and VOC from cars/trucksPolicies in BCC EraClean Air Act Amendments of 1990Established EPA Acid Rain Program – Innovative Cap & Trade ProgramRestricted auto emissions via technology standards (e.g., catalytic converters), tighter CAFÉ standards, and blended fuel requirements
Energy and Climate Change
Energy and Climate ChangeProduction and consumption of fossil fuels results in greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions – mainly CO2 and CH4 (methane)The greenhouse effect from GhG emissions results in climate change – a multi-faceted impactHow has CO2 in atmosphere been changing?
Energy and Climate ChangeProduction and consumption of fossil fuels results in greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions – mainly CO2 and CH4 (methane)The greenhouse effect from GhG emissions results in climate change – a multi-faceted impactHow has CO2 in atmosphere been changing?And what are the impacts of this?
Economic Analysis of Environmental ImpactsBefore we go too far into climate issues, let’s look at how we can analyze environmental policy related to energy issues.And look at lessons from prior environmental policy efforts
Model of emissions regulationTwo sides of emissionsDamages – Changes in emissions result in marginal cost of emissionsFor CO2, we refer to MC of emissions as Social Cost of Carbon (SCC)“Benefits” – Emissions are a side-effect of productive economic activity (like burning natural gas to generate electricity)Marginal benefit (MB) of emissions is extra benefit as emissions increase.Mirror image of MB is marginal abatement cost of reducing emissions.
Managing Emissions Externalities
$
E
MB
MC
Managing Emissions Externalities
$
E
MB
MC
...
Question 1 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a well known ic.docxamrit47
Question 1
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a well known icon around the world.
The Sydney Opera House is about 500m away and from it, the angle of elevation
to the top of the bridge is measured as 14°54' (to the nearest minute).
The place where this measurement is made is 1m above the water level.
On the other side of the harbour bridge, a second reading is taken from the second floor of a building
700m away and 20m above the water level. The angle of elevation is observed to be 9°15' (to the
nearest minute).
(a) Calculate an estimate of the height of the Harbour Bridge above the
water level.
(b) Discuss all possible errors in all measurements taken.
(c) Give a range for the maximum and minimum height.
Question 2
Three dice are thrown and the sum on the faces are recorded. This would
give values ranging from 3 (1-1-1) to 18 (6-6-6).
The experiment is run 300 times.
(a) Either carry out the experiment by rolling 3 dice, 300 times or use
Excel to simulate this experiment (Assistance is offered on how to do
this in a consultation session if required).
(b) Present the data in a table showing the frequency and cumulative
frequency columns.
(c) Compute the median, upper and lower quartiles
(d) Calculate the mean and standard deviation for the results of your
experiment either by the use of the stats mode on your calculcator
or using excel.
(e) Interprete the mean as an area and use Simpson’s Rule with 5 values,
to estimate the mean again, (using the median, the quartiles and the
upper and lower extremes of 3 and 18). Comment on how accurate
this is.
Question 3
People often are lost when it comes to knowing how much to
they can borrow to buy their homes.
Construct a simple spreadsheet application with the following
as input variables
The interest rate (% pa compounded monthly)
The amount to be borrowed.
The term in years of the loan.
The combined salary of the people buying the house.
The output of the calculator should include
(a) The monthly repayment for the loan.
(b) An estimate of when the loan would be half paid off.
(c) The percentage of the combined salary the repayment represents.
(d) The total interest paid out over the full term.
(e) The increase in repayment per month, should there be a 1% increase in interest rates.
(f) The decrease in the term if they switch to fortnightly repayments instead of monthly.
Present printouts for the following examples.
1. A couple on $150,000 wanting to borrow $500,000 over 30 years at 4.5% pa
2. A sole income earner on a salary of $80,000 wanting to borrow $200,000 over 25 years at 5% pa
3. A student earning $30,000 taking a share in a house requiring a loan (for his part) of $100,000
over 10 years at 6% pa.
Question 4
To make a rectangular grid of 2 rows of 3 squares requires 17 matches.
(a) How many matches would you need to make rectangular grids of m
rows of n squa ...
How to Write an Argumentative Essay Step By Step - Gudwriter. Sample Essay Outlines - 34+ Examples, Format, Pdf | Examples. Argumentative Essay Outline - 9+ Examples, Format, Pdf | Examples. A Sample Argumentative Essay.
This is follow-up from the IBM Almaden Sept 27th meeting on "Regional Upward Spirals: The Co-Evolution of Future Technologies, Skills, Jobs, and Quality-of-Life"
Slides from ICWSM'17 workshop on Social Media for Demographic Research (Montreal, May 2017)
Overview of demography
How can demographers contribute to the analysis of big data (social media)? How can social media contribute to population studies?
Concerns over data quality.
Data Revolution and the SDGs: overview and value, huge challenges for attaining a economic-demographic-
environment balance, and the urgent need for data scientists and demographers to work on these issues.
The topic is Self-Driving CarsAnalysis of Impact DraftTh.docxteresehearn
The topic is Self-Driving Cars
Analysis of Impact Draft
This week, you will submit your Analysis of Impact draft (roughly four pages, using APA format).
This portion of the Course Project provides an analysis of the chosen technology’s influence on society considering all of the following components:
Social
How has this technology been received, accepted, or rejected? Why? Is it feared or favored? What is the attitude toward change? How are the developers trying to sell the technology to the general public? Look at attitudes, feelings (emotions), behaviors, personality, and the ways humans change as a result of this technology. What is being thought, and why? Is the human mind impacted? How? Are interactions between people changing as a result? Who is included or excluded, and why? Use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Piaget, or some other theorist. What psychological needs are met by the technology (e.g., cell phones once granted status and now promote a sense of belonging or connectedness) or created by the technology? Consumerism?
Look at groups and organizations that have arisen and prospered because of this technology. Are these groups supportive or antagonistic, and why? (An example is genetically modified foods [GMOs] and the backlash against the Monsanto corporation. Another is cochlear implants that allow the deaf to hear yet reduce the deaf population that calls itself a community.) How does the technology change society, or how does society change in response to the technology? What factors in society led to the development in the first place? What do class, gender roles, race, norms, and the like mean in this context? Who will benefit from the technology, and who might be harmed (this might also belong in the ethics and morals section)? For example, prosthetics enable people to participate more fully and actively in society (some people compete in triathlons and marathons), and war has brought about the need for advances in prosthetic technology as casualties with missing limbs return home to the United States. Look at the workplace, new companies, and/or jobs created, jobs lost (or save this for the economics section, perhaps). Look at roles—subgroups, people’s interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships. Consider crime, healthcare, and schools. Surveillance cameras, for example, have recently been installed in New York City, and the result has been a decrease in the amount of crime, purse-snatching, pickpocketing, and so forth. Yet some fear the big-brother effect of always being watched and tracked, as well as concerns over “who will guard the guards.”
Cultural
This is a really important section. Consider the elements that comprise the culture and subcultures. Compare the United States' use of the technology with that of other nations around the world. What is it about Americans that brings about innovation, or has America declined in terms of technical innovation, scienti ...
5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
Ciência de Dados: definição, desafios de modelagem e aplicações multidiscipli...luizcelsojr
A palestra descreve a área de Ciência de Dados e dá exemplos de diversas aplicações multi-modelos (tabelas, texto e grafos) e multi-disciplinares (biologia, enfermagem, educação).
Analysis of Impact DraftThis week, you will submit your Ancheryllwashburn
Analysis of Impact Draft
This week, you will submit your Analysis of Impact draft (roughly four pages, using APA format).
This portion of the Course Project provides an analysis of the chosen technology’s influence on society considering all of the following components:
Social
How has this technology been received, accepted, or rejected? Why? Is it feared or favored? What is the attitude toward change? How are the developers trying to sell the technology to the general public? Look at attitudes, feelings (emotions), behaviors, personality, and the ways humans change as a result of this technology. What is being thought, and why? Is the human mind impacted? How? Are interactions between people changing as a result? Who is included or excluded, and why? Use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Piaget, or some other theorist. What psychological needs are met by the technology (e.g., cell phones once granted status and now promote a sense of belonging or connectedness) or created by the technology? Consumerism?
Look at groups and organizations that have arisen and prospered because of this technology. Are these groups supportive or antagonistic, and why? (An example is genetically modified foods [GMOs] and the backlash against the Monsanto corporation. Another is cochlear implants that allow the deaf to hear yet reduce the deaf population that calls itself a community.) How does the technology change society, or how does society change in response to the technology? What factors in society led to the development in the first place? What do class, gender roles, race, norms, and the like mean in this context? Who will benefit from the technology, and who might be harmed (this might also belong in the ethics and morals section)? For example, prosthetics enable people to participate more fully and actively in society (some people compete in triathlons and marathons), and war has brought about the need for advances in prosthetic technology as casualties with missing limbs return home to the United States. Look at the workplace, new companies, and/or jobs created, jobs lost (or save this for the economics section, perhaps). Look at roles—subgroups, people’s interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships. Consider crime, healthcare, and schools. Surveillance cameras, for example, have recently been installed in New York City, and the result has been a decrease in the amount of crime, purse-snatching, pickpocketing, and so forth. Yet some fear the big-brother effect of always being watched and tracked, as well as concerns over “who will guard the guards.”
Cultural
This is a really important section. Consider the elements that comprise the culture and subcultures. Compare the United States' use of the technology with that of other nations around the world. What is it about Americans that brings about innovation, or has America declined in terms of technical innovation, scientific research, and development? Look at advertising for the technology, th ...
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The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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17. How Big is What? People Number, place, sex, age, ethnic use technology Farming, energy, construction, manufacturing, transportation, information, military, biology to transform resources Water, food, materials, energy into economic goods Global, national, industrial, occupational, organizational (and waste products) Air, water, solid, hazardous under government International, financial, regulation social, infrastructure in a cultural context Traditions, beliefs, values Language Beliefs Values Norms People Nature Technology Government Economy
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35. Measurements of Change Absolute = X 2 – X 1 Percent change (x 2 - x 1 ) / x 1 * 100 Index numbers x 2 / x 1 * 100 Base of 100 Proportional change (x 2 - x 1 ) / x 1 Ratio change x 2 / x 1 Base of x 1 Numerator of difference Numerator of x 2
36. U.S. Energy Production, 1949-2009 Absolute = 41.2 Quads Percent change 130% Index numbers 230 Base of 100 Proportional change 1.30 Ratio change 2.30 Base of x 1 Numerator of difference Numerator of x 2
37. U.S. Energy Production, 1949-1970 Absolute = 31.8 Quads Percent change 111% Index numbers Base of 100 Proportional change Ratio change Base of x 1 Numerator of difference Numerator of x 2
38. U.S. Energy Production, 1949-1970 Absolute = 31.8 Quads Percent change 111% Index numbers 211 Base of 100 Proportional change 1.11 Ratio change 2.11 Base of x 1 Numerator of difference Numerator of x 2
39. Measures per Unit of Time 3.6% 5.3% 1.5 Q 1949 -1970 0.7% 1.4% (x 2 / x 1 ) ^ (1 / # yrs) – 1 [ Solving x 2 = x 1 * ( 1 + r ) ^ # yrs for r ] Compound average growth rate (CAGR) 0.8% 2.2% (x 2 - x 1 ) / x 1 * 100) / # yrs percent change / # yrs Annual average growth rate (AAGR) 0.2 Q 68.7 Q (x 2 - x 1 ) / # yrs absolute change / # yrs Average change per unit (year) 1970 -2009 1949 - 2009
46. The Cone of Plausibility The Future is many, not one. Source: Charles Taylor, Army War College Present Limit of Plausibility Alternative Futures Limit of Plausibility Past Implications Baseline
Course objective: Student will be able to describe changes that are going in the environment and initiate change to create a preferred future for themselves and for TRADOC. Audience : TRADOC Interns Length: Four hours
Goals To highlight some of the attributes assigned to the Millennial generation To look at how the world has changed in the past three generations- so that we might understand the interaction between generations that we find in schools/work. To look at why this might be important to education Generations are characterized by groups of people born within the same time period– and have a strikingly similar values and view of the world based on shared early life experiences. It is about passing through life stages together… The theory is that b/c of our shared experiences- we might share beliefs towards science, technology, government, ‘progress’, national pride, gender, celebrity… Story isn’t that young people have changed- or parents have changed– but that some things in our world have changed– and others have stayed the same… We are all just responding and adapting as best we can…. It’s not about finding the best approach. Just recognizing how we might look at the world differently b/c we were born at a certain time– and passed thru the world changing at a different stage in life…
Goals To highlight some of the attributes assigned to the Millennial generation To look at how the world has changed in the past three generations- so that we might understand the interaction between generations that we find in schools/work. To look at why this might be important to education Generations are characterized by groups of people born within the same time period– and have a strikingly similar values and view of the world based on shared early life experiences. It is about passing through life stages together… The theory is that b/c of our shared experiences- we might share beliefs towards science, technology, government, ‘progress’, national pride, gender, celebrity… Story isn’t that young people have changed- or parents have changed– but that some things in our world have changed– and others have stayed the same… We are all just responding and adapting as best we can…. It’s not about finding the best approach. Just recognizing how we might look at the world differently b/c we were born at a certain time– and passed thru the world changing at a different stage in life…
The two major divisions of futures studies and four important roles. (Marine images again!)
A summary of futures techniques in six steps. These are the steps we use to build the survey of futures techniques.
Goals To highlight some of the attributes assigned to the Millennial generation To look at how the world has changed in the past three generations- so that we might understand the interaction between generations that we find in schools/work. To look at why this might be important to education Generations are characterized by groups of people born within the same time period– and have a strikingly similar values and view of the world based on shared early life experiences. It is about passing through life stages together… The theory is that b/c of our shared experiences- we might share beliefs towards science, technology, government, ‘progress’, national pride, gender, celebrity… Story isn’t that young people have changed- or parents have changed– but that some things in our world have changed– and others have stayed the same… We are all just responding and adapting as best we can…. It’s not about finding the best approach. Just recognizing how we might look at the world differently b/c we were born at a certain time– and passed thru the world changing at a different stage in life…
A wider set of factors to consider when describing change. These are the famous STEEP categories (Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental and Political) with Social divided into Demographic and Cultural. We just found out that we think that the categories came from STEP, created by Arnold Brown of Weiner, Edrich and Brown when he was publishing the Trend Analysis Reports for the Life Insurance Council of America in the late 1960s. According to Joe Coates, someone added Environmental in the 1970s after the flowering of the environmental movement. Other common categorizations are PEST and EPISTLE (by adding Information and Legal).
Goals To highlight some of the attributes assigned to the Millennial generation To look at how the world has changed in the past three generations- so that we might understand the interaction between generations that we find in schools/work. To look at why this might be important to education Generations are characterized by groups of people born within the same time period– and have a strikingly similar values and view of the world based on shared early life experiences. It is about passing through life stages together… The theory is that b/c of our shared experiences- we might share beliefs towards science, technology, government, ‘progress’, national pride, gender, celebrity… Story isn’t that young people have changed- or parents have changed– but that some things in our world have changed– and others have stayed the same… We are all just responding and adapting as best we can…. It’s not about finding the best approach. Just recognizing how we might look at the world differently b/c we were born at a certain time– and passed thru the world changing at a different stage in life…
These are common shapes of continuous change used to trend forecasters to predict what value a variable will have in the future.
Goals To highlight some of the attributes assigned to the Millennial generation To look at how the world has changed in the past three generations- so that we might understand the interaction between generations that we find in schools/work. To look at why this might be important to education Generations are characterized by groups of people born within the same time period– and have a strikingly similar values and view of the world based on shared early life experiences. It is about passing through life stages together… The theory is that b/c of our shared experiences- we might share beliefs towards science, technology, government, ‘progress’, national pride, gender, celebrity… Story isn’t that young people have changed- or parents have changed– but that some things in our world have changed– and others have stayed the same… We are all just responding and adapting as best we can…. It’s not about finding the best approach. Just recognizing how we might look at the world differently b/c we were born at a certain time– and passed thru the world changing at a different stage in life…