When you think about how the future will turn out, you probably think about hovering cars and things like teleportation. Although stuff like this might exist in the future, I believe that you should think about subjects that are more important when thinking about the future. You. Think about topics such as your career, your health, your residence, your family and so on. Then you should think about subjects on a broader view such as the future of the environment, advances in technology and medicine and the future of the world and governments. Although you may not be able to change these things, but they will have an impact on your life and if enough of us get together maybe we can have some impact on them as well. Lastly, you may think about positive changes in the world. On how our technology will advance or how our medicine will move forward. You may also think about negative things such as global warming, weapons of mass destruction and epidemics. You can see that the future gives you both challenges and opportunities. It is up to you and up to all of us how we leverage our tools to come up with solutions and control our future.
The whole point of school is to prepare you for the future. Every second you spend learning, prepares you for the future challenges. Most kids probably don’t realise this, but it’s true. The first eight or nine years of your life, may not seem to be that critical in terms of your future but when you think about it you would appreciate their importance. During these years we get exposed to many subjects from mathematics to geography, from LA to music. These years we have the best ability to learn and start thinking about which subjects we love most. This helps us to focus more on specific subjects which we want to learn when we go to the high school. The high school then helps us to start thinking about the university and our career. So you can see how the whole thing links up to our future – from the first grade all the way up to the university. If we do not take these years seriously, we are not building our future and we are losing the chance of controlling it.
In the future, current problems we have today will most likely grow into catastrophes. For example, global warming might slowly get worse. Today’s society really doesn’t care that much but they don’t realise that this will affect their children and grand-children. Right now you may think that global warming is the only problem that goes into that category, but no. Sicknesses are another. It started with the SARS sickness, then West Nile and then it moved on to Swine Flu. These sicknesses are going to continue to grow, and to get worse. The only problem with this happening is that we almost have no control over it. For example, the West Nile Virus was given to us by mosquitoes. We can’t just kill every mosquito in the world. It would completely ruin the food chain. However, maybe we can fight it another ways – by developing vaccines and by educating people. Basically what I am trying to say is that although we are unable to stop problems in the world, we may be able to prevent some by hard work, by trying and not giving up, by inventing and by teaching.
The future will not hold only negative aspects, but it will hold some positive ones too. Think about technology and medicine. The progress that we have made in these areas has helped us to live linger, safer and with better life style than our grand-parents did fifty year ago. These positive advances have given us the tools to fight the negative problems that our generation is facing. The interesting thing about this is that we have discovered more and invented more in the past ten years, than the thirty years before that. Think about what we can achieve in 50 years from now.
In summary, we have three things to deal with. The unknown future that is going to be full of challenges, the unknown future that is going to be full of opportunities and us at the present time with the certainty and the ability to learn, work hard, discover, invent and teach to achieve more control over our destiny and together over the destiny of mankind. The secret is always going to be how do we use our tools to solve our problems and how do we leverage our future opportunities to face our challenges. The only way that I can think of is to prepare ourselves for it.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Technology
One thing that is present in almost everyone’s life is technology. Almost every minute of your life you are being affected by technology. When you are being affected by technology though it can either be for the good or for the bad. After figuring this all out, you should think about how our life would be without technology.
Every second of your life, you are bound to be near technology. For example, if you are reading this, then you have some technology right in front of your face. If you are reading a printed version of this, then the lights on top of you are on; also you had to print it to be able to read it. I believe that I can say with confidence that currently most people in North America can’t live without technology. Everyone in North America has lived his or her whole life with technology; it has become a necessity. On the other hand, some people believe it has become a problem for our society.
One aspect of technology is that it can take over your entire life. Instead of being out there exercising, you are playing with video games. Instead of travelling, you are watching the National Geographic Channel. Instead of playing tennis, you are pretending that you are playing tennis in your room in front of the TV screen with a Wii controller in your hand.
Continuing from the last paragraph lets go at it from a different angle. What would our life be without technology? No computers, no TV, no video games, everything would have to be done by hand. I would have had to write this whole post by hand. Coming from that idea, think about the famous books in the world. Only one person in the entire world (1/7000000000 approximately) would be able to read it. It is also important to think that how technology has improved every aspect of your life. From communication to medicine, from art to engineering, from convenience to security and so on and on.
In conclusion, I can say that just like everything else if technology is used in a proper way and in a balanced way, it will become your servant. Otherwise there is the danger that the technology could become your master taking over every aspect of your. I also want you to think about millions of people who have been killed because of war technology and millions more that have been saved by the everyday technological advances in medicine. Do you see the dual role of technology?
Every second of your life, you are bound to be near technology. For example, if you are reading this, then you have some technology right in front of your face. If you are reading a printed version of this, then the lights on top of you are on; also you had to print it to be able to read it. I believe that I can say with confidence that currently most people in North America can’t live without technology. Everyone in North America has lived his or her whole life with technology; it has become a necessity. On the other hand, some people believe it has become a problem for our society.
One aspect of technology is that it can take over your entire life. Instead of being out there exercising, you are playing with video games. Instead of travelling, you are watching the National Geographic Channel. Instead of playing tennis, you are pretending that you are playing tennis in your room in front of the TV screen with a Wii controller in your hand.
Continuing from the last paragraph lets go at it from a different angle. What would our life be without technology? No computers, no TV, no video games, everything would have to be done by hand. I would have had to write this whole post by hand. Coming from that idea, think about the famous books in the world. Only one person in the entire world (1/7000000000 approximately) would be able to read it. It is also important to think that how technology has improved every aspect of your life. From communication to medicine, from art to engineering, from convenience to security and so on and on.
In conclusion, I can say that just like everything else if technology is used in a proper way and in a balanced way, it will become your servant. Otherwise there is the danger that the technology could become your master taking over every aspect of your. I also want you to think about millions of people who have been killed because of war technology and millions more that have been saved by the everyday technological advances in medicine. Do you see the dual role of technology?
Monday, February 8, 2010
Vacations
One thing that everyone should experience is traveling and taking a vacation. When you go back to a school after holiday breaks, you always hear your friend talking about their travelling experience and how much they have learned from it. . Personally, this is why I find vacations to be essential in everybody’s life. First of all, it’s a chance for people to visit their relatives. It also lets you see other people’s customs. Lastly, it’s just a time to get away from all of it. It’s an opportunity to refresh the way you think and the way you appreciate life.
In my opinion, it so hard to have to stay away from your family, especially if they’re far away and you rarely get to see them. For me, this is one of the main reasons I go on vacations. You get to spend time with people you love. You can go out to restaurants with your family, or you can just go to their houses. As a quick side note, it’s amazingly fun when you can go and meet some of your relatives for the first time. It’s all positive except when you have to go back. It always gets so emotional when leaving.
When traveling to far away places on earth, you are able to see other customs, and you are able to see how other people live. This is such a healthy thing to experience at young age. You can see so many differing things, such as how much trouble places like Haiti are going through. You might be able to see racism in a place like South Africa. Yes, this can still influence you at an older age, but when you are young you are so prone to wondering, and you can get taught so easily.
Finally, its just a chance to escape all the trouble in the world. I find it so nice to just be able to go to a nice resort, and to just have the ability to relax in a hotel room. Also, I find it so nice to just get a break from of the school work. You can let your body recuperate, and then you can just return to your regular life. Your body would have rested, and at the same time it would let your brain rest.
As you see, vacation is one thing that everyone needs at one point in their lifetime. It lets you see how much trouble people are going through in the world. It also lets you see your family and friends, and just sometimes it lets you get away from everything. And now, I think that I am going to go on a vacation of my own right now.
In my opinion, it so hard to have to stay away from your family, especially if they’re far away and you rarely get to see them. For me, this is one of the main reasons I go on vacations. You get to spend time with people you love. You can go out to restaurants with your family, or you can just go to their houses. As a quick side note, it’s amazingly fun when you can go and meet some of your relatives for the first time. It’s all positive except when you have to go back. It always gets so emotional when leaving.
When traveling to far away places on earth, you are able to see other customs, and you are able to see how other people live. This is such a healthy thing to experience at young age. You can see so many differing things, such as how much trouble places like Haiti are going through. You might be able to see racism in a place like South Africa. Yes, this can still influence you at an older age, but when you are young you are so prone to wondering, and you can get taught so easily.
Finally, its just a chance to escape all the trouble in the world. I find it so nice to just be able to go to a nice resort, and to just have the ability to relax in a hotel room. Also, I find it so nice to just get a break from of the school work. You can let your body recuperate, and then you can just return to your regular life. Your body would have rested, and at the same time it would let your brain rest.
As you see, vacation is one thing that everyone needs at one point in their lifetime. It lets you see how much trouble people are going through in the world. It also lets you see your family and friends, and just sometimes it lets you get away from everything. And now, I think that I am going to go on a vacation of my own right now.
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