Our Future

In Tony Wagner’s article “Rigor Redefined”. He talks about the seven survival skills that everyone needs to know to survive in our changing world. A lot of schools are teaching kids what they need to know but not how to critically think to solve some questions.

            The seven survival skills are essential for everyone young and old. Since we have put our world in an unstable state everything is changing so we have to be able to adapt which is the third skill in the article. The first skill, critical thinking and problem solving, has to be used in our everyday life too. If you were to come across an obstacle you would have to be able to think about how to get around on your own. This skill is getting harder for each new generation to learn because they are lazy.

We need more people to be able to solve our world wide problems. People who have learned and understand the seven survival skills. With those skills we could solve the pollution problem or maybe find an energy source that will last forever. These seven skills can unlock great potential for our word’s future.

Who is Smarter

            In Micheal Wesch’s video “ Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing Us” he suggests that everything that the computer knows is controlled by us. He says that everything we search and type it remembers it. Like when you search something on Google. When you type in the search bar a ton of suggestions come up under it of what other people have searched. It knows what we like. It knows what we did a day ago on it.

            We look at the computer today and see that it is a powerful piece of technology, although most of us don’t know that we are being used by the machine so it becomes smarter. We could loose one of the most important freedoms we have to the computer and it is our power to think. You don’t have to have any senses to live. But thinking is the most important thing in our life. If we loose the power to think then we cannot live our life to the fullest. Sometimes your on the internet search something up and other people think why you did search up that item. What if it was the computer asking you “Why did you search that up instead of something already in the system”? I know it is unlikely for a computer to start talking but it knows what we usually search.

            We are creating something that knows us and is becoming smarter and smarter. We need to ask ourselves who is the smartest.