Mother nature Flashcards
Billion dollar extreme weather events
1980 to 1989 three per year 2010 to 2000 1210 per year.
Source national oceanic and atmospheric administration
CO2 is famously entering the atmospheric about 100 times faster than it did when the planet emerge from the most recent Ice Age about 12,000 years ago. The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is 35% higher than its peak for the last 800,000 years. Sea levels are higher than they’ve been in 115,000 years and the rise is Exceller rating. A century of synthetic fertilizer production has disrupted the earth nitrogen cycle more dramatically in any event in 2.5 billion years.
Article January 2016 Bloomberg.com
CO2 levels, nitrous oxide levels methane levels stratospheric O-Zone, surface temperatures,surface temperature, ocean ocean acidification tropical forest loss are all indications of the earths systems going through massive changes.
Population, urban population, fertilizer consumption, what are use, paper production, international tourism, telecommunications have all spite the past 20 years.
Climate change means more extremes – – more torrential storms, more extended droughts.
We have ripped the rewards of technological progress without do concern for unintended consequences, according to Adam Sueden. We must take heed of the planetary boundaries.
Increased demand for goods has led to the use of ever advanced and more invasive technology to extract actual resources that keep the economy growing. These insult the land and the grade natural ecosystems while increasing inequalities, human population displacement and social unrest.
Warren Kanders says the factory of the future will have two employees a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Examples of did a human or a machine/computer right this?
Computing power per unit cost is doubling about every 18 months and a year and a half will have 100% more power, in five years more than 900% and in 10 years 10,000%.
Moreover bio technology is changing even faster than information, robotics and autonomous systems are becoming ubiquitous. Nanotechnologies poised to affect the rate change of commercially useful areas, from new materials to energy storage and energy itself is undergoing profound changes affecting all of society.
Collectively, the rates of technological change in just these five areas bio Robo info nano and energy (BRINE) Pose legal, ethical, policy, operational and strategic opportunities and risks that no company or individual can address it alone. It is a full on societal reinvention challenge.
Turning a guy into IEA.
Securing and holding a job requires dynamic stability – – you need to keep paddling or paddling all the time.
You have to know more, you have to update what you know more often, and you have to do more creative things with it. So much of learning requires self motivation well after formal school ends.
And on-demand world requires on-demand learning for everyone, accessible to anyone around the world, anywhere on your phone or tablet and this really changes the definition of learning.
When I walk into a subway in see someone playing candy crush, on their phone I think there’s a wasted five minutes when they could be bettering themselves.
Within the next decade the digital divide will largely disappear and when that happens only one that will divide will matter, says marina Garbis executive director of the Institute for the future and that is the motivational divide.
The future will belong to those who have the self motivation to take advantage of all the free and cheap tools and fluids coming out of the supernova
We need to constantly re-train employees to adapt to the evolving or place and it’s needs.
People need to know one’s job experiences, skills, education, certifications and specialties.
To help deliver skills, companies are partnering with Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Stamford and others like you destiny and course Sarah to provide affordable graduate and undergraduate degrees or just specialized training for each one of the skills it needs.
You can take the courses on your own time and companies will reimburse the tuition.
Udacity Online training how it develops courses with Google.
For example google has introduced basic Algorithms for a program called TensorFlow, Which allows fast computer to do “deep learning” with big data sets to perform tasks better than a human brain.
We can now update your skills at the pace of MRE’s, at the pace of the industry. The traditional academic world cannot do that.
Udacity, EdX, Coursera are accelerating shape of higher education that can respond to major technological lips, faster.
FoldIt is an online game that promote scientific design – – for example people can play and win a substantial cash prize for designing proteins.
These are new approaches to rapid learning. Allen College, which has a new paradigm for engineering education to prepare students to become exemplary engineering innovators.
LearnUp is an online platform that helps to train people needing basic skills for basic jobs
Khan Academy
Put up a set of calculus tutorials and sees within hours which ones are the most effective in helping students come up with the right answers. I can iterate immediately and start scaling to best tutorials, leave within a few hours. Ability to refine content and make it better at scale is staggering.
Having high literacy rates as an Exceller rent for crosses it developed world and to apply it to the developing world where much more people cannot participate is powerful excellent. Young people who are motivated to learn can go to Khan Academy and go as fast as they want to learn.
Example – – QUALCOMM.
Giving data centers to janitors and working with them to develop ways to properly manage their facility.
Data sensors can reduce the cognitive load so that complex data can be filtered to help manage situations better
This is example of an intelligent assistant that is helping to manage my data and more information better
Linked in has studied it for database to determine which all seem to be launching my graduate into the top companies in for his professional fields.
For example County – and Notre Dame media – NYU and Ostroff software development – Carnegie Mellon Celtic and Cornell.
Last good middle-class jobs today – the ones that cannot be outsourced, automated, probiotics sized four digits diced are likely to be what we will call STEMpathy jobs these are jobs that require and report to your body to leverage technology and interpersonal skills
Polls show successful students had one or more teachers who are mentors and took a real interest or aspirations and had an internship related to what they were learning in school.
The most successful for first sight having a professor professor who cared about them as a person or at a mentor for encourage their goals and dreams for having had an internship where they applied but they were learning. These workers were twice as likely to be engaged with their work driving in their overall well-being, according to Brandon busted of Gallup dictation – – Gallup polls
