The document discusses contrasts in the modern world and basic necessities. Over 1 billion children go to bed hungry each night and many lack access to clean water. While technology has advanced rapidly, over 750 million people still lack adequate food and water. The industrial revolution transformed society, and a new revolution from automation may disrupt jobs. The future will see medical and other advances, but also potential job losses. Education must change to focus on skills like curiosity and decision making. Overall values of responsibility will determine our ability to shape the future.
The Slide Share categories a annoyingly stupid. This a an overview of the global future situation with implications for Latin America for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Slide Share categories a annoyingly stupid. This a an overview of the global future situation with implications for Latin America for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
What Do World Class Innovators Do That Others Don't Do?UBMCanon
Jim Carroll, Author, Columnist, Futurist, Innovation and Trends Expert
Jim Carroll is one of the world's leading international futurists, trends and innovation experts, with a client list that ranges from Northrop Grumman to Johnson & Johnson, the Swiss Innovation Forum to the National Australia Bank; the Walt Disney Organization to NASA. His focus is on helping to transform growth oriented organizations into high-velocity innovation heroes.
He has a unique professional background as a Fellow Chartered Accountant, author, and frequent speaker at corporate and association events. Jim loves to golf, but isn't very good at it, which caused him some amazement when he was invited to open the 94th Annual General Meeting of the PGA -- the Professional Golf Association of America -- to challenge 500 golf pros as to how to think about innovation and future trends.
Jim was the first speaker the PGA has ever engaged to speak at their AGM, and has high hopes that he has helped to shape the future direction of the world's largest sport. He's also hoping to inspire you in a similar way.
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Roadmapping the UK's future, 2019-2025-2035David Wood
Thanks to breakthroughs in science and technology, the future could be profoundly better than the present – provided we recognise this opportunity, and take appropriate actions.
In this vision, there will be an abundance of all-round human flourishing. Everyone will have the means to live better than well - healthier and fitter than ever before; nourished emotionally and spiritually as well as physically; and living at peace with ourselves, the environment, and our neighbours both near and far.
That's the vision of the Transhumanist Party UK. The Party is developing a set of bold top level targets for the UK to seek to achieve by 2035. These goals are intended to be memorable, clear, and inspiring.
This set of slides was presented by David Wood, Co-leader of the Transhumanist Party UK, at an event at London's Newspeak House on 1st July 2019.
This meeting was a chance for members, supporters, friends, and critics of the Transhumanist Party UK to take this discussion further forward:
*) What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Party's current set of goals for 2035?
*) What are the most important steps to take to significantly enhance all-round human flourishing by 2035?
*) And bearing in mind both the potential and constraints of both technology and politics, what transformations would need to be well advanced by 2025?
For more information about the event, see https://www.meetup.com/London-Futurists/events/262210389/.
For more information about the Transhumanist Party UK, see http://transhumanistparty.org.uk/.
For a Discourse thread discussing the ideas in this presentation, see https://discourse.transhumanistparty.org.uk/t/goals-for-2035-update-3rd-july/95/1
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A recording of this presentation can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSETLmTKzqg
5 Reasons Why We Need A New Perspective on Consumption.Ajinkya Pawar
The concept of 'Sustainable Consumption' came from the simple insight about the limits of our ecology to sustain our burgeoning population; as one African elder summarized the meaning of sustainable consumption - 'Enough. for all. forever.'
However, what is enough? Is their a limit to nature's ability to provide and our ability to find newer uses? Are we (humans) really capable of 'controlling' the nature? If we are a part of nature too, what 'should be' the limit to our curiosity?
Questions of ecology and consumption are defining our zeitgeist today. However, before hoping to arrive at the 'holy grail' of sustainability, we need to understand the context of consumption.
Globalization, 24*7 media and technological advances have fundamentally altered the way we consume products, services and information.
In these series of 4 articles, I will look at 4 key perspectives that would drive the sustainable agenda.
Here's the first one. :)
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This presentation by David Sinclair of ILC-UK asks whether the Web can save social care.
It argues that:
*We have more older people and are going to need more care
*Care is in crisis today. It is likely to get worse before it gets better
*Technology has a role to play
*But we have assumed the place of technology without addressing the barriers
*There are some challenges to overcome
Jefferson Science Fellow Distinguished Lecture by Daniel B. Oerther January 2...Daniel Oerther
Title: What Does Sustainable Developmentof Science and TechnologyLook Like in the 21st Century?
Author: Daniel B. Oerther, PhD, PE, BCEE
John A. and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental Health Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Jefferson Science Fellow, Secretary’s Office of Global Food Security, Department of State
Abstract: Science and technology innovation – from the discovery of fire to electricity to computers – has allowed the creation of new and more efficient global economies. As we have developed from hunter- gathering communities, to agricultural economies, and very recently to industrial, service, and knowledge economies, some groups across the globe have been left behind financially. Looking ahead towards 2050, the employment opportunities in human computation promise to: 1) solve challenging problems and 2) simultaneously grow economically. Human computation is a computer science technique in which a machine performs its function by out-sourcing certain steps to humans. Combined with the internet of things and additive manufacturing, the greatest untapped resource of the developing world is the vastly under-utilized intellectual capacity of billions across the globe. Rather than promote development policies and programs that incrementally bring the financially impoverished through the stages of personal and economic development, this presentation will argue that a leap frog approach relying upon science and technology innovation is the path we should pursue for sustainable development.
Biography: Dr. Daniel Oerther earned his doctorate in environmental engineering from the University of Illinois. He pursued additional graduate training in microbial ecology (Marine Biology Laboratory), public health (Johns Hopkins), and public administration (Indiana). He was a member of the faculty of the University of Cincinnati from 2000-9 including one year as Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Professor Oerther is currently the John A. and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental Health Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. @DanielOerther describes himself as, “a social entrepreneur using design thinking to eliminate extreme poverty, ensure access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, and to protect global food security and nutrition.”
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In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
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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.
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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.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
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.
2. A world of contrasts
That speaks to us in the language of signs
– readable only by those who can see.
“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
3. Basic Necessities
1. 3 billion live on less than $2.5 per day.
2. Tonight more than 1 billion children will go to bed hungry.
3. 22,000 children die everyday due to poverty
4. On this planet 805 million people do not have enough food
to eat.
5. More than 750 million of them lack adequate access to clean
drinking water.
What is a basic necessity?
4.
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7. So, what should be our focus?
Food, water, shelter, health care, education?
8. What will it take?
1. In 1998, the UN estimated that it would take $40
billion annually to offer basic education, clean
water and sanitation, basic health and nutrition to
every person in every developing country.
2. That would be about $58 billion today.
Compared to $ 1.4 Trillion on weapons
9. Hunger kills
1. The World Food Programme says, “The poor are
hungry and their hunger traps them in poverty.”
2. Hunger is the #1 cause of death in the world, killing
more than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis
combined.
Believe it or not
11. The first commercial text
message was sent in 1992
In 2015 the total number of text messages
exchanged is 350 billion exceeds the entire
population of the planet by 5 times (7 Billion)
20. Essence of it all
1. Faster and easier access to information
2. Hugely enhanced computation power, information
storages and hugely fast searches
3. Potential to forecast scenarios, prepare for eventualities,
predict outcomes, options
4. Potential to control, influence, track, help, network,
leverage, surveillance, security, share, empower and earn
But benefits only those who know how to use it
22. The Industrial Revolution
1. The Industrial Revolution was the transition to
new manufacturing processes in the period from
about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
2. But the changes it brought were not restricted to
manufacturing processes
22The Industrial Revolution changed the world
23. What did it change?
1. Time of day
2.Education
3.Parenting
4.Values
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It changed the world and
took one generation with it
24. Today we are entering…
A new revolution which will be a thousand
times more disruptive
25. “47% of jobs are at risk of being
automated in the next 20 years”
Carl Frey & Michael Osborne, Oxford University
“The future of employment and how susceptible are jobs to
computerization”
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26. Skewed tech-think
1. Maximize productivity
2. Minimize cost of production
3. Human beings are a cost to be eliminated
“People will rise up before robots do.”
~ Andy Macafee, ‘The Second Machine Age’
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But someone has to pay for it all – Who is that?
28. AI –Artificial Intelligence
1. Machine learning replaces humans in repetitive work
2. IBM Watson gives legal advice in seconds, with 90%
accuracy versus 70% accuracy of humans.
3. Watson diagnoses cancer 4 times more accurately than
humans
4. Self-driving cars & trucks & homes on solar energy
Imagination, innovation, creativity, curiosity, disagreement
29. Global changes
1. Robotic manufacture, agriculture, housework, Petri dish meat,
insect protein
2. Medicine: Device that at works with your phone, takes retina
scan, blood sample and you breathe into it.
3. It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any
disease.
4. Advanced stem cell technology will allow you to make or
replace organs. Life expectancy will be around 115 to 125 years
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30. What will change?
1. Huge convenience in all areas and cheap services
2. Loss of jobs for all generalists in all areas
3. Current education is redundant already
4. What you teach and how you teach must all change
drastically
5. Empower imagination, curiosity, self-learning,
interpersonal skills, decision making, responsibility
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31. What must be done?
Start fresh to create a new generation
32. Collect dots or connect dots - is the
difference between information and
knowledge; mugging and
understanding; success and failure.
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