[2ndDivisionVet]

Vivek Wadhwa is a fellow at Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University, director of research at Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke, and distinguished fellow at Singularity University. His past appointments include Harvard Law School, University of California Berkeley, and Emory University.

[publius911]

It’s a beautiful time to be alive and educated

Hmmmm.

Also, evidently, to be ignorant, entitled, angry, belligerent, thuggish, whining and barbaric...

Africa lives!

[chrisser]

...in which we fight wars over dwindling natural resources

Really? Which war was over what resources?

Seems to me most wars have been about power, ideology and/or, perhaps, land. Resources were just part of the picture, and generally a factor in who won or lost, not an objective in itself.

[equaviator]

“You have seen the advances in our computers: how they keep getting faster and smaller.”

Just this morning I read that SanDisk has a new SD card with 500GB of memory. That’s less than a square inch, dimensionally. However, the price tag comes out to something like $1.20 per gigabyte.

[miss marmelstein]

His job titles are straight out of SJ Perlman! Could they get anymore convoluted?!

[Old Sarge]

That was always the one beef I had with Star Trek in all its incarnations: the Socialist Utopia of that future.

This Leftist is misinformed, as usual. According to ST canon and all the writings done, the key element that changed the future was not computer technology - it was the distribution of food. Once global food availability was achieved and world hunger solved, all other geopolitical issues fell by the wayside.

[NorthMountain]

in which we fight wars over dwindling natural resources.

Horsefeathers!

[Smokin' Joe]

Needless to say, I was disappointed. I grew up into a world filled with hunger, poverty, and disease—in which we fight wars over dwindling natural resources. It is a world of pessimism and sorrow, in which people obsess over maximizing their share of the pie.

I think I see the problem right there. Many natural resources are renewable (food, for instance)--it only takes skill (and effort) to maximize those.

Those squabbling over 'their share of the pie' are likely not working to increase the size of the pie so all can have plenty.

That's back to the Liberal idea that if one has more another necessarily has to have less. Make the 'pie' bigger and there is more than enough to go around.

[Axenolith]

We need people who care about enriching humanity rather than just themselves.

Which logically would be accomplished by providing that humanity with the template for living like Americans (with rule of law, property rights and their acknowledged inherent rights as granted by God) and hoping they either accept and embrace it, or get left in the dust without another thought.

Outside of the realm of those who would enrich humanity by that means, the vast majority of humans who claim to want to "want to enrich humanity rather than themselves" are hucksters angling for power and control over those humans.

[ConservingFreedom]

That is what it is going to be about: constant learning and reinvention.

That's for sure - very little of what I do today was learned in school.

[setha]

That and one can add his support of guest worker fraud.

[BlackAdderess]

This guy is part of the forced march to everything the Depression Era generation warned us about.

[tophat9000]

once man's education, is another man's indoctrination, is another man's propaganda, is another man's blind dogma

sad but true...

To be educated on the mechanisms of thinking, via deductive reasoning and intellectually honest reflection and inquiry

Is different then being educated as what to think and regurgitated it at Pavlovian command....

I think our new information age as a lot more of the latter education than the former type education...

It in part a a byproduct of the sheer quantity of data we must absorbent daily in the new information age... and some malevolent intent by who distributes the data to manipulate your thinking

[BlackAdderess]

“Do as I say, not as I do”, yep, people who used to hide money in their mattresses said to beware of people who said things like that.

[familyop]

"I grew up into a world filled with hunger, poverty, and disease" because of the corruption in foreign philosophies, governments and businesses.

Yes. We're seeing an increase of that rot in the U.S.A. It's been coming from foreign minds with much political, business and media influence.

[Sergio]

A common thread in most science fiction and futurist visions of utopia is that it came about after a worldwide cataclysmic event. Nuclear war, pandemic, giant asteroid, etc. It almost seems like these writers and thinkers are saying that what we currently have cannot be fixed. We need to start over to make a utopia happen.

These writers seem to forget that the closest instance of utopia on this planet was here in the USA, where a moral people, using the moral guidance of our constitution, had the fastest and greatest period of growth in industry, education, health care, science, personal freedom and wealth, that the world has ever seen.

What has slowed us down? Immoral people in the decision making process that inject collectivist “solutions” to any and every issue. Interesting that we have examples of what works and doesn’t work with regards to real world governance, and yet without fail, those in charge always pick the way demonstrated not to work.

So, it’s not that we can’t make it work, we have the directions and examples right in front of us, the real challenge is putting people in charge that will follow the directions and examples. I wish I had a solution for that problem.