how to prepare for life that does not exist yet?
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How to prepare for life that does not exist yet?
Marcis Auzinsh
Library
Books today
History …
Encyclopedia Britannica
Each day there are 4000 new books pbulished worldwide
In one week “The New York Times” publishes as much new information as
in the entire 18. century
Currently each year amount of new information generated equals to
the amount generated in the last 5000 years
Conrad Wolfram
David ChalmersAustralian National University, New York University
Extended mind
Current students will be using technologies
not invented yet
Current students will be having jobsthat does not exist yet
Current students during their professional life will be changing 10 – 20
different jobs
Half of what stdents learn in the first stydy year will be outdated when they
will reach the third year
Rolf Martin Zinkernagel Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1996
I guarantee that at least half
of what is written in this classical textbook is
wrong
How to respond to this challenge?
Source: Riel Miller, XperidoX Futures Consulting; [email protected]
Average intensity of know-what
Average intensity of know-how
Average intensity of know-why (decision
making capacity)
Agricultural Society Industrial Society Learning Society
WHATHow
WHY???
http://www.openminded.lv
There are people who think and people who know. Rarely both at the same time.
Twitter wisdom
Gorge Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950)
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think ...
George Bernard Shaw
Albert Schweitzer,(14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965)
Q: What is wrong with man today? A: Men simply don't think.
Albert Schweitzer
