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Andrew DeWitt

Learning in the Light of Faith - 0 views

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shared by Andrew DeWitt on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • When I was just out of graduate school, I attended my first meeting of the American Physical Society in New York City. A highlight was a special event arranged by the conference organizers: the great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov had been invited to speak to us.
  • Hour after hour he wrote down the stories he found in books in the university library about people protesting the invention of things like machines to spin thread and to weave cloth, steam-powered trains, automobiles, airplanes, etc. All of these advances were perceived by the general public either to be physically dangerous or to be a threat to the livelihoods of workers in trades that were about to be destroyed by these advances.
  • when he started to write science fiction, he remembered all of this work he had done. So while his fellow writers were all rhapsodizing about the thrill of rockets and space travel (long before such things were possible), he wrote a story about how the local populace showed up at the launch site with torches and pitchforks in opposition to space travel. Years later, when rockets and travel outside of the earth’s atmosphere became possible, there were protests, and many of Mr. Asimov’s colleagues were astounded that he had predicted so far in advance that this would occur.
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  • “Why,” Mr. Asimov then asked us, “among all of these talented and visionary writers, was I the only one who was able to predict that this resistance to change would occur?” He let us think about the question for an uncomfortably silent minute, then leaned into the microphone and said in an intense voice that I still vividly remember: “It’s because people are stupid!”
  • The lesson I take from my memory of this experience is that the proper attitude to have when confronted with the vast complexity both of the universe and of the ideas and activities of the people who live on this small planet orbiting an ordinary star far away from the center of things in our galaxy is profound humility.
    • Andrew DeWitt
      Andrew DeWitt on 19 Oct 10
       
      This is how we ought to deal with future shock: "humility"
  • Andrew DeWitt on 19 Oct 10
     
    Great Devotional Talk by Ross Spencer.  Includes a great reference to "Future Shock".
Jeffrey Chen

Future of the internet - 0 views

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internet future digital civilization

shared by Jeffrey Chen on 17 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Jeffrey Chen on 17 Oct 10
     
    A educational and descriptive future of the internet from the opinion of Sir Timothy Berners-Lee of MIT
James Wilcox

Trillions - The Future of Computing | Educational Videos - The Best Education... - 0 views

www.educationalvideos.com/llions-the-future-of-computing

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shared by James Wilcox on 09 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • James Wilcox on 09 Oct 10
     
    Here is a link to that Trillions video about the future of computing.  Its really interesting to think of not only the amount of digital interfaces, but the new ways in which they will interact with us.
Ariel Szuch

Future Shock Re-assessed by Richard Slaughter - 2 views

www.metafuture.org/...futureshock.htm

future shock

shared by Ariel Szuch on 20 Nov 10 - Cached
Gideon Burton liked it
  • both individuals and societies needed to learn how to adapt to and manage the sources of over-rapid change.
  • Possibly the best section in the book is that on education. Here he advanced a powerful critique: ‘what passes for education today, even in our ‘best’ schools and colleges, is a hopeless anachronism.’ He then added: for all this rhetoric about the future, our schools face backwards towards a dying system, rather than forwards to an emerging new society. Their vastenergies are applied to cranking out Industrial Men - people tooled for survival in a system that will be dead before they are. (2) The thesis was then advanced that the prime objective of education should be to ‘increase the individual’s ‘cope-ability’ - the speed and economy with which he can adapt to continual change.’ (3) Central to this was ‘the habit of anticipation’. Assumptions, projections, images of futures would need to become part and parcel of every individual’s school experience.
Margaret Weddle

'Future Shock' team issues predictions for next 40 years - USATODAY.com - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...0-10-14-futureshock14_ST_N.htm

Future Shock predictions Alvin Toffler

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  • Margaret Weddle on 15 Oct 10
     
    USA Today article about the next predictions. Also a few notable fulfillments. Interesitng!
  • Margaret Weddle on 15 Oct 10
     
    The next Future Shock!
Gideon Burton

The digital age an age of stagnation? - 2 views

www.wired.com/...future-shock

future shock wired

shared by Gideon Burton on 22 May 12 - No Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 22 May 12
     
    When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
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  • Sean Watson on 23 May 12
     
    Fascinating article. Thanks for sharing this, Dr. Burton. Do you think it's because internet technologies are mainly looked at as entertainment sources and not utilized as educational, academic, and research empowering tools? Is there something about the facility of information that hampers one's creativity, kind of like the cat and mouse game of dating that heightens one's mojo? Or could it possibly just be the result of a nation that has become exhausted with the competitive level necessary to transform this into what it may become? Or finally, do you think it's just a matter of time like the economic historian, Paul David said?
  • Gideon Burton on 25 May 12
     
    I do think it is a matter of time. People fall into ruts, even with revolutionary technologies. But enough is happening to keep this sphere innovating on the large scale even if it appears same-old in the short term. Nice to hear from you, Sean.
  • Sean Watson on 26 May 12
     
    Very interesting! Nice to hear from you too, Dr. Burton.
Jeffrey Chen

Money is considered digital? - 1 views

www.wfs.org/trendjf03.htm

Money future digital civilization

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 17 Oct 10
     
    Interesting article on the future of money and how digital it truly is
Madeline Rupard

Rebels Against the Future - 0 views

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  • Madeline Rupard on 05 Oct 10
     
    I wasn't aware that there was a legit, active anti-technology movement in the world today. Apparently there is.
Brandon McCloskey

Real-time computing goes from Wall Street to High Street - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-11444051

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  • If the company could monitor sales of ice cream - or bottled water or sun tan cream - on hot days like this one and then gauge future demand, he said, it could alter the way the company behaved
  • Real-time - the act of responding to events as they happen - is changing the way that the world behaves.
  • The software has also been blamed for exacerbating the financial crisis. Computer programmes automatically sold stocks as fear spread in the markets, because their algorithms have built-in "sell" orders.
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  • SAP's software is also being deployed on offshore oil rigs and even in hospitals around the world. This allows diabetic patients, for example, to have their blood sugar levels monitored and insulin administered if it gets dangerously high.
  • Future applications that are being discussed include the military, such as real-time monitoring of troop and tank movements. StreamBase is already used by the US National Security Agency to monitor security threats. "It's difficult to think of an industry that isn't affected by real-time," Mr Palmer says.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 08 Nov 10
     
    How real-time computing is affecting economics
Andrew DeWitt

NASA - NASA Helps Kick Off Competition for Bright Minds - 0 views

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  • "In the first century of flight, NASA made countless contributions to aviation by improving performance, efficiency and safety. Just as we needed the brightest minds for all those contributions, we need the brightest minds now and in the future to develop, operate and improve our future air transportation system,"
  • Teams of three to seven high school students from at least 29 states and the District of Columbia will compete to design a more fuel-efficient airplane
Brian Earley

FutureQuake Online - 0 views

www.futurequake.com

digiciv futurequake Media

shared by Brian Earley on 18 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Brian Earley on 18 Nov 10
     
    Dr. Future interviews famous people, including Alvin Toffler.  Check "past shows" and you'll find a library of 5 years of AM recordings.
Jeffrey Whitlock

Turning eReaders To Mobile Phones, Is This The Future? | Best Ereaders - 0 views

www.best-ereaders.com/...bile-phones-is-this-the-future

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    • Jeffrey Whitlock
      Jeffrey Whitlock on 17 Nov 10
       
      I disagree with this article, it may be true for the developed world but cell phones currently stand as the most viable option for extending litteracy into the third world countries.
Margaret Weddle

ellen tordesillas » Being connected - 0 views

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DigiCiv connected

shared by Margaret Weddle on 29 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Margaret Weddle on 29 Nov 10
     
    A blog entry by a Malayan journalist about her tiny bario that is experiencing the growing pains of finally having internet service. Sometimes it is difficult to simply connect to the internet! But it is starting to expand the vision of the young people & offer them more of a future.
Ariel Szuch

Academic Evolution: Dear Students: Don't Let College Unplug Your Future - 1 views

www.academicevolution.com/...dear-students.html

academic evolution

shared by Ariel Szuch on 17 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Ariel Szuch on 17 Dec 11
     
    An excellent, must-read post by our very own Dr. Burton.
Child Therapy

Coaching Both Parent And Child - 1 views

I want to see my kid happy and grow to his full potential. That is why, when I see him having trouble opening up to me or to other people, I feel bad as a parent. I feel that I am not doing a good ...

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