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Post by Mr. Wolfman on Mar 23, 2011 14:35:28 GMT -5
...and respond two two or three of the video's ideas that you think have (or will have) the biggest impact on your life. Please copy the comment from the video into your answer. At least 10 sentences are required.
Due by 11:59PM on Sunday 3/27/10
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Post by jonahk on Mar 23, 2011 15:48:40 GMT -5
One of the quotations from the video that I think has a big impact on my life is at 3:38, "The amount of new technical information is doubling every two years." This is important because it effects how I live my life. It would be much harder to communicate with my friends if the computer or telephone hadn't been invented. Also, many other thing would be different. I wouldn't be able to store food in my refrigerator or use the microwave. If technology wasn't moving at the speed that it is now, my life would be much harder. Another quotation that has a big impact on my life was at 2:06 where it says, "There are 31 Billion searches on Google every month. Like life without technology, my life would be very different without the internet. I would have some of the same problems as in the beginning part of this paragraph. I wouldn't be able to communicate with friends, ask questions that only a few people know the answer to ... etc. I enjoyed the video. It had some really interesting facts in it.
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Post by HannaB on Mar 23, 2011 16:07:30 GMT -5
The biggest impact in my opinion is the fact of how quikly the number of jobs is changing. By the time we finnish school and are ready to have a job, what we were planning to spend your life on may have become pointless, and something that never existed before may have become the most wanted job on the market. Aspecialy for what they say about technical degree studets, working for two years and then relizing that all of what you learned was irrelavant. The issue is, as the video said, we have no idea what will become important in a few years. We can only guess. However, I am not sure that the super computer is possible, computersd rely on the information we put onto it, unless people figure out how to give a computer a full sense of logic, they cannot know more than we do.
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Post by sophiec on Mar 23, 2011 16:38:35 GMT -5
Wow; very cool video. Much of the information in the video has a least some impact on my life, as things are being connected more and more by the day, so it's hard to choose just one that is most influential to my life. But I'd have to say that one of most significant facts to me is the one presented in 0:57- 1:08 of the video: "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't been invented in order to solve problems we don't know are problems yet." This is so cool and complicated to me that I can't even wrap my head around it. As we are current student generation, we are the children being educated to solve problems that haven't been conceived of yet. Though I don't personally found this to be true (or wouldn't know how to recognize it if it is), it is still a very difficult and profound thing to understand; we are learning so as to participate in a world that is growing technologically exponentially. Though not all of the facts have an impact that I can see, some of the cool ones I found most shocking were at 0:41--"India has more honors kids than America has kids"--1:39--"If MySpace were a country, it would be the fifth largest in the world," and obviously FaceBook is much bigger than that even--the 2:06 Google one--at 3:10 "There are about 540000 words in the English language, which is 5 times as many as in Shakespeare's time." Some of the facts just astounded me, like that we will generate more information this year than the last 5000 years, and some make me pity ourselves, like the India honors kids fact, or at 1:28--"1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online."
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Post by sarinaw on Mar 23, 2011 17:45:47 GMT -5
A lot of this video had an impact on my life because i can't imagine my life without all of the technology we have today. At 1:41 i learned that if the users of Myspace were a country, it would be the 5th largest country. This is easier to picture that if we were given a number. To be a website and be in the top five largest countries is unbelievable. At 2:07, the video said that there are 31 billion searches on Google per month. That is a huge number that is hard to grasp. It then said that in 2006, that number was 2.7 billion. Its hard to imagine that in just a few years the amount of people using Google could grow so rapidly. At 4:14 the video said that by 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain. It is hard to understand how humans could make something so intelligent. Making something smarter than what built it is really an accomplishment.
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Post by Aaron E on Mar 23, 2011 17:50:57 GMT -5
The most important part of the video was the part where it said "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't exist yet, using technoligies that don't exist yet, in order to solve problems that we don't know are problems yet". This struck me as intriguing for a lot of reasons. It shows how fast we are moving ahead in technology, it is amazing. We don't even know what is coming, but we just know that its coming. The big thing that is also important is when it said that students starting a four year technical degree, the information they are learning today will be outdated in three years. This also shows how fast we are moving ahead in technology. An example of this is computers. Three years ago computers were no where near as powerful as they are today. It's like the Staples commercial where the family comes home and everything is stolen except the computer, that shows how fast technology moves. When a new version of something comes out three times a year, it shows big technology abilities, most of which we didn't have too long ago.
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Post by elizagf on Mar 23, 2011 18:21:40 GMT -5
To me the thing that will influence our lives the most is the fact that in school they prepare us for jobs that don't yet exist. When the video says "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't been invented in order to solve problems we don't know are problems yet." It is mind boggling to think that I am thinking about what I want to be when I grow up, and that job might not exist yet. Also when it said that technology will soon be created that is smarter than the human population was eye opening. That a human could create something more intelligent than itself is in a way frightening. We have no idea the type of thing we are capable of creating. This relates back to Myspace being such a huge thing in our world, but the next generation could have never heard of it. The world is changing extremely fast and we have no way of predicting what the latest technology will be which prevents anyone from predicting their future. When parents want their child to be a doctor or a teacher, they are saying this blindly, because they have no idea what the future might hold. Going back to technology, if we look at computers or cellphones from ten years ago, to the most recent phones, in such a short historical time, our society has evolved immensely.
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Post by ribhie on Mar 23, 2011 18:54:41 GMT -5
To me one of the things shown in the video that influences me the most is the fact that amount of technical information is doubling every 2 years. That just shocks me as I am astounded by how quickly the human race is progressing. Another fact that i find quite interesting is that there were 31 BILLION searches on Google in 2010. This is incredible as it shows how important a simple search engine such as Google is to the world answering 31 BILLION questions a year that in P.G times would have been unanswered. Its crazy to me how the internet allows us to find information that we could have never found before and it proves to me that without internet this world would be quite different. Another quotation from the video that i found interesting was when early in the video it said that there are more honors students in India then there are kids in the U.S. This is significant to me as it shows how the U.S will soon be taking the back seat to other growing countries such as Brazil, China and of course India. This opens my eyes to the fact that America is no longer the smartest country in the world and might soon lose its status as the biggest world power in the world.
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Post by patrickm on Mar 23, 2011 18:57:59 GMT -5
At 3:25 it says “It is estimated that a week’s worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century.” This is very important because the amount of information we can learn now was impossible for people living only two-hundred years ago. Two-hundred years being a very short time compared to all of human history. Never has the world been at such a point where there is this much widespread information everywhere, and never has it been this easy to access with resources such as the internet. It also says at 3:41 that “the amount of new technological information is doubling every two years…” So if now we already have such expansive information on the internet, it’s nothing compared to what we will have access to in a few short years. We just have so many more resources than we used to, and everything is expanding at an exponential rate, it exciting to see where all this will go.
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Post by isabels on Mar 23, 2011 19:02:27 GMT -5
The whole video made a a big impact on me. I have always thought about this and my parents are constantly reminding me "They didn't have this when I was your age", but to see the statistics like that is kind of mind blowing. To me, the thing that has the biggest impact on my life was the part about Google. It said "To whom were these questions addressed before B.G.? (Before Google). To me this has always seemed to be the strangest thing about technology. There is a place where you can go, and type a word in, and it will tell you about one thousand more things than you already knew about it before. To have that kind of information available to everyone is changing the way our lives are run. People who aren't used to what is out there being out there need to find a way to adapt because otherwise things are not going to go well for them. People are able to access things that maybe weren't supposed to be accessed. Times are changing so fast.
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Post by alexc on Mar 23, 2011 19:03:24 GMT -5
I think that the quotation from the video at 2:05, "There are 31 Billion searches on Google every month," is very relevant to my life because it reminds me how much of it depends on internet. The internet has become an almost vital part of modern society, and we are coming to depend on it so much that we forget to acknowledge that it is only a few decades old. Right now, when most people have a question or are curious about something, they Google it. In fact, the word 'Google' has become part of the dictionary. Our dependence on internet has grown rapidly since it was first created, and it will continue to grow in future years. Another quotation that I think applies to me is at 4:13, "By 2013, a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computation capabilities of the human brain." Not only has the internet come to play a massive role in our lives, but so have computers in general. Our constant discoveries and technological advances are going to outrun us in only 2 years, according to the video. The fact that in such a short amount of time we will have created computers that are even more computationally capable than the human brain means that our innovations are advancing so rapidly that our creations will be able to outsmart us, their creators. Both of these quotations are very relevant to me because I am on the computer and internet almost daily, and it is easy to forget how quickly the things we use so often are beginning to outrun us.
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Post by janicet on Mar 23, 2011 19:04:30 GMT -5
I think the fact that they said in 2:05, that "there are 31 billion searches on Google each year" and in 3:38 where they said "The amount of new technical information is doubling every two years". I find this amazing and how life would be without Google or the internet. If we didn't have internet or any other kinds of technology we have today, it would be much more difficult for every one of us to communicate with people and find the answers to our questions. We would have to do the old fashion ways of writing letters to people as a way of getting in touch with them, and also looking up our questions through books. However, with internet now we can communicate much faster and find the answer to our questions much more easier. For example, cellphones, Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, Iphones, Ipads, Video Chat, etc. These have all impacted us. And in the future, there will be more advancement in technology, which may affect us in a bigger perspective. Another thing that would impact our lives would be when they said in 0:59, that they are preparing jobs for students that don't exist yet using technology that hasn't been invented yet. The future seems like its going to have many more jobs to come and some of the jobs today may not even be present anymore. With new jobs replacing the jobs we have today, not only people, but the world may change in many different ways.
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Post by jhm on Mar 23, 2011 19:11:33 GMT -5
First off, I LOLd at the Myspace fact. They should also include that 190 million of those accounts have been inactive for the last four years. But in all seriousness, I think the whole "we are preparing students for jobs that don't exist" thing will affect me at some point. Because technology is advancing so fast, education does not affect jobs as much as it used to. When I say my backup job will be a neurosurgeon, I might not be sure about that because our brains will be replaced by super-robot-computers by then. I also thought I'd be affected by the fact that India is way smarter than us. (well, not smarter, they just have eight billion people in their country). I should probably learn Indian at some point. Lastly, the whole fiber-optics-data-per-second thing would affect everyone. Communication would be even faster, and things like youtube might actually work. All of the technological advances would make our lives way easier, and it may be way harder (or way easier, I don't know) to find/get a job.
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Post by nikitar on Mar 23, 2011 20:40:01 GMT -5
This video really impressed me. I didn't realize how colossal the world we are living in is, and in so many ways, too! Personally, the two statements "India has more honors kids than the United States has kids," and "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't exist yet, using technologies that don't exist yet, in order to solve problems that we don't know are problems yet," are most important. The first quote is vital because it goes to show that the United States, and many countries like it, are not pushing their children as far as some of the "competition". I'm not saying that this is a good or bad thing, however when you look at a country like India, a third-world country with a massive population, you would think that a country with a population and the resources like the United States would be exceeding in the education category. This is why it astonishes me that they are not, and the amount of people in India who are exceeding in their I.Q. surpasses the ENTIRE population of the U.S... And then there is the rest of India's population! Who knows what kind of potential they hold? This brings me to my next point, relating to the next quote I mentioned earlier. Technology is accelerating so fast in our time, what with the great minds of the entire world, that the human race simply cannot keep up. Therefore, we are losing the ability to quickly adapt the entire population to the newest and greatest technology, simply because we are unable to get everyone situated in time, because soon enough the next new thing is out! The idea that a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capacities of the human brain, and later on, the entire human race is mindboggling. It begs the question, "Will the human race someday be second best to the computer?" It is very much possible, and something that we as people should be careful of.
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Post by tuckerm on Mar 24, 2011 12:23:09 GMT -5
To me one of the things shown in this video that influences me the most is the technical information is doubling every two years and every thing in growing exponentionaly. This just goes to shows me how quickly the human race is progressing . Another thing i find quite interesting is that there were 31 billion searches on Google in 2010. This is incredible as it shows how important a simple search engine such as Google is to the world answering 31 billion questions a year that in P.G times would have been unanswered. i think that this shows thatpeople are moving at pace that we cant keep up forever and we will eventully burn out. It just goes to show me how the internet allows us to find information that we could have never found before, with out this technolagy we would have never got as far as we are today! the last thing that i find crazy is about jobs......we are being prepared to solve problems that arent even problems yet! is that fair? and what will happen when computers become smarter than humans??all this information has got me thinking about what the world would be like with out all of the things we take for granite every single day.
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