Posted on 09/30/2013 12:37:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 09/30/2013 12:44:51 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Nothing to get hung about....
It doesn’t matter much to me (baby boomer)
>>Im just glad I have a tech job....
for now...<<
Most coding/development/programming jobs have been sent offshore — they are merely mechanical.
When I finally finish the program that can replace me, I will just run it with an avatar that looks like me and use the ADA to get 100% telecommute status.
All them cornfields and ballet in the evening.
Use the robots to do far far more with less and less, thus lowering costs and making a far higher standard of living available to all.
Modern life in the devloped world: smart phones EVERYWHERE, tablets/laptops/desktops EVERYWHERE, the internet/wi-fi EVERYWHERE, cars that are mobile technology centers, airplanes that fly themselves with hundreds of people at near transonic mach numbers, tv's that get thousands of channels from geosynchronous satellites, food produced by one bored farmer driving a climate controlled automated harvesting machine...goes on and on endlessly.
What are people going to do? Build and run the machines that create the things they need.
Or didn't know they needed.
Just like now.
Get the best instructors, on tape. Then computerize it with quizzes and progress indicators.
There is absolutely no reason we need hundreds of thousands of math instructors, when computers could teach better, cleaner, consistently at the rate of the student, as opposed to the rate of the slowest student.”
The big fad in the early 1960s in math education was self-paced learning. My 8th grade algebra teacher gave us a workbook and told us to work the problems at our own pace. Most of us spent the class time daydreaming or passing notes back and forth. It took me several years of “hard knocks” in future conventional math classes to make up for that one disastrous class.
Well, I suppose there will not be much buying! Only our labor produces the wealth that is needed to make purchases. And if we find a way around this, then there is always “going Galt.” Why? Because there is much satisfaction in a job well done and enjoying the fruit of our labors, and if that is taken away from us, then an important part of living has been taken away from us.
When I finally finish the program that can replace me, I will just run it with an avatar that looks like me and use the ADA to get 100% telecommute status.
I plan to merge with a machine untill I am 100% machine then i will duplicate myself to the point where I can outnumber the Dems 2:1 and work to elect decent people...
Your instructor didn't control it. In the 6th grade, our teacher took me and a friend and said, y'all are bored in the normal class, so sit here at this table and work these problems and as long as y'all work, you don't have to be part of the regular class. We worked through most of high school algebra and geometry in the 6th grade.
It was so successful, that by the end of the school year, he had 20 students working problems at their own pace.
>>I plan to merge with a machine untill I am 100% machine then i will duplicate myself to the point where I can outnumber the Dems 2:1 and work to elect decent people...<<
The singularity meets the multiplier...
I think the professors should be far more concerned with advanced technologies taking *their* jobs.
Already, MIT has put its entire curriculum online. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the first two years of college change only very slowly over time, and can be almost generic to accomplish the same instruction.
Only in the upper divisions do the professors really matter, and then, as individuals, tailor making their instruction, if they are good, so that their students have knowledge unique to that professor’s “school of thought”, on that particular subject.
I like your plan.
Actually I think that's true of most education. From grade school through college.Computers should replace university professors first. They could certainly be programmed to spew the Leftist line just as 95% of professors do.
Get the best instructors, on tape. Then computerize it with quizzes and progress indicators.
There is absolutely no reason we need hundreds of thousands of math instructors, when computers could teach better, cleaner, consistently at the rate of the student, as opposed to the rate of the slowest student.
The big fad in the early 1960s in math education was self-paced learning. My 8th grade algebra teacher gave us a workbook and told us to work the problems at our own pace. Most of us spent the class time daydreaming or passing notes back and forth. It took me several years of hard knocks in future conventional math classes to make up for that one disastrous class.The future is now:khanacademy.org
like Detroit ?
Khanacademy is good.
Udacity.com is also good.
I’m halfway through udacity’s intro to Physics. And I just stated about a week ago.
Khanacademy is good.
Udacity.com is also good.
I’m halfway through udacity’s intro to Physics. And I just stated about a week ago.
All the robots will be manufactured in Red China and Mexico..
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