Hope or Hopelessness?

[Nelson Muntz]

I don't know where this presentation came from, when it was done, or anything about the statistics to back it up. But... I found this to be a really compelling short video of what our kids/grandkids will face. It seems at first to be quite daunting, a huge challenge that must be impossible to face. But I got the sense after awhile that our kids and grandkids will have opportunities and challenges that we could never dream of. I still ended with a sense of hope.

Those of us who've been in the workforce for 20, 30 years or more will be able to relate to the pace that the world around us and technology has galloped. The future our kids and grandkids will face will be a full out run for the roses, but I have confidence in our country, our offspring, and our world, that they will find a way to meet and exceed that challenge that faces them. They can make it if we position them for success. I felt the humble limits of my humanity in this. Do you feel hope or hopelessness? Did You Know? Please review.

http://www.conservativestronghold.com/video/DidYouKnow.wmv

[Bumper]

I think advances in technology will actually be less daunting as time goes on. In school we were trained on huge mainframes reading punch cards. To consider what most of us have sitting on our desktops now is mind boggling when you make the comparison. But today, we have already come to expect rapid advances in technology. The next generation will push technology with their expectations. There's nothing to feel hopeless about in regards to technology, IMO....

[CopperKnight]

Very interesting. It will take a while to digest that and see what I think.

side note: "See what I think." isn't that a strange phrase? Hmm. (Now you know why it will take me a while.):icon_lol:

[Nelson Muntz]

Very interesting. It will take a while to digest that and see what I think.

side note: "See what I think." isn't that a strange phrase? Hmm. (Now you know why it will take me a while.):icon_lol:

Yeah, you're right. I see what you're sayin'. :joker:

[Bumper]

Very interesting. It will take a while to digest that and see what I think.

side note: "See what I think." isn't that a strange phrase? Hmm. (Now you know why it will take me a while.):icon_lol:

Actually, when you decide and post it we will be able to see what you think. :wink:

[SelfDefense]

I think advances in technology will actually be less daunting as time goes on. In school we were trained on huge mainframes reading punch cards. To consider what most of us have sitting on our desktops now is mind boggling when you make the comparison.

The only thing mind boggling is how ineffective 'modern' computers are. Back in the day, we were given five seconds of CPU time on a Cyber 175 for an entire semester of work. In comparison, today a 1 GHz PC cannot even keep up with typing speed in a text editor!

Our technology advancement consists of bloated software, poor memory utilization (after all, we have a fast processor) idiotic software paradigms like object oriented stupidity, java, middleware, wrappers, methods, classes, and other academia styled nonsense that justifies universities spitting out programmers that couldn't engineer a scientific application if their job depended on it. Which it doesn't.

Current software education and corporate programs are the equivalent of the indoctination of liberal idealogy in our schools and its subsequent destruction of society by its implementation..

Rant off.