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The video, “Now You Know,” is a film that is trying to tell students something important about our futures. It tells us that 25% of the population in China with the highest IQ’s is greater than the total population on North America. In China, they have more honor students than we have students; meaning they have more smart kids than we have average/unproficient students and honors. If your one out of a million in China, there are 1,300 others like you. The message this video is trying to tell us is that Americans, don’t care about there education and depend on technology. Students that are in first grade now, by the time they are 23 years old, a 1,000 dollar computer will exceed the capabilities of the human brain. As Americans, we are becoming more lazier and not taking our brains to the next level– by the amount of technological information is doubling each year, and predictions are that by 2013, the supercomputer will be built that is stronger than the capability of the human brain.
The most significant quote on my wordle is that 25% of population in China with the highest IQ’s is greater than the population in North America. What this really means that our country, North America has a population of 514,600,000, and 25% of the students in China with high IQs, beat the number of people we have in our country. Concluding, that we are lazy and don’t take anything seriously because technology will take care of it for us. We will e-mail someone in India or China and do our work, have it ready in the morning, and for a cheap cost. This affects my future because I am not in them countries and not getting the advanced education and they, will get the brains to develop great technology and advanced economic uses. So when they create them, the computers will be smarter than an American and will make it worth a lot. When one day America will run out of money to buy them an we will start to work for them.
After watching this short film, it has made me look at the future differently. It has made me realize that fast food places and construction jobs will possibly ruined. By ten or so years later, they will create computer robots to take care of them simple jobs. And people that are uneducated and work for McDonald’s for a living, will not have them jobs anymore because they will be highly improved. The carrier change I will make is to finish school and become something that requires humans needs- maybe like a doctor or a dentist. I always wanted to finish school but now I now with out the proper education and not slacking off and taking school seriously, I will be a NOBODY in life.
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October 22nd, 2008 at 8:53 am
this is good, I liked it a lot. You had a bunch of details about whats going on and that should be helpful to someone who doesn’t know.
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 am
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October 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
I love your blog it tells us so much information and I think this video changed the mind of everyone who watched it. I agree with you that probably fast food places and construction probably won’t need humans later on. And million of people will lose their jobs.
October 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I really enjoyed reading this blog. The part where you talked about China’s IQ is a real eyeopener that we need to improve our education here in America.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Hey I love your blog I like how you explained everything because you know ship is happening at a blink of an eye and we are not even noticing!! I also like all the details you put in your blog it shows that you put a lot of effort in it. I agree that the fast food places will be gone as well as constructions., as well as they will all lose their jobs.