Thursday, November 30, 2006
“In just 15 years, we’ll begin to see the merger of human and computer intelligence that ultimately will enable people to live forever. At least that’s the prediction of author and futurist Ray Kurzweil.”
Too good to be true? Check out this article.
“Kurzweil isn’t writing science fiction. In fact, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, a robotics director at Carnegie Mellon University, an MIT professor, and a physicist have all endorsed his book. He has received the National Medal of Technology and the Lemelson-MIT prize. The directors of the National Institute of Health have asked him to speak to their members. Kurzweil says he’s simply looking back and measuring the computational progress the human race has made over the last century and then projecting that same line of progress forward into the near future.”
In the fall of 2007, those entering kindergarten will be graduating in the year 2020 when a number of the technological innovations spoken of by Kurzweil may be reality. How will those kindergartners be prepared for that future? What role will their schooling play in that preparation?
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The article certainly challenges my thinking. I read the book Prey which was about nannobots that went awry. If ideas in the artilce come to fruition, we won’t have to worry about our special education students or esl students because the nannobots would be able to “fix” or help compensate for brain or emotional deficits and language barriers. I guess the long-standing debate over stem cell research will also disappear if nanno technology can be used to regenerate human tissue. I would like to believe this will all happen and rather quickly at that. I am very skeptical, however. I can’t even begin to imagine what the educational system will look like to stay ahead of this kind of discovery.
on 12/01 at 10:04 AM
