How Screwed Are You - Technology and the Future

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PART ONE: “THE QUESTIONS”

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TECHNOLOGYWhat does that word mean to you?Remember your answer to that questionBecause it may be about to change

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TECHNOLOGY TO DO FOR YOU?

OR TO YOU?

As we define the role technology will play in our lives, we cannot ignore the polarizing effect

it is already responsible for.

Shouldn’t it be shrinking?

The gap between the technically literate and illiterate is growing

And Most Importantly

How come we STILL don’t have personal jetpacks?

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THINGS TO CONSIDER

Computers and the internet have combined to create the most powerful communication tool in history.

We now have the ability to communicate with the world at previously unheard of or imagined ease and speed

Yet everyday we become more and more isolated…

ARE WE COMING TOGETHER?ARE WE COMMUNICATING?

With all our time-saving technology

It seems like we are more hurried than ever

Technology has cultivated genius ….

Never before have so many been empowered to contribute to mankind’s

collective head…

Yet never before has that collective head….

Been so far up our collective backside……

Millions of people place the most intimatedetails of their lives online…

forming “virtual global communities”

But they have no idea who or what lives next door….

Online chat rooms are booming..

People spend hour after hour endlessly chatting with a “cyber friend”….

Then go to sleep with their back to the one they love….

nothing to say……

Then try listening for a change…

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Very soon being technically illiteratewill carry the same stigma and

handicaps that not being able to read holds today…THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT

The percentage of people who are

unable to functionally read and write is tragic…

and growing…

The Question Nobody Wants to Ask :

What happens when these people are joined

by the “technically illiterate” trying to secure

employment in a shrinking number of unskilled

labor positions????

You wont need the machine to answer that question

you will be able to ask your daughters new fiancé..

Many feel that with things like nano-technologythe machine will have the ability to extend our lives for hundreds or even thousands of years.

What will we do with all the people???

technology can solve that problem for us as well

The machine is not our friend

The machine IS:

The machine is not our enemy

A fact of life that requires your attention

There will always be exceptions…but it is becoming clear that society Is

breaking down into two classes of people

You are either one of those who runs the machine….

or one of those the machine runs over..

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PART TWO: “THE ANSWERS”

JUST HOW SCREWED ARE YOU?

Technology is in it’s infancy...none of us will be around to see it mature completely.

Like all things, the mature technology will be a reflection of the

way it is allowed to develop in its formative years.

So in addition to adapting tothe changes technology promises

We are also responsible for making sure that those who come after us will

not have to deal the changes technology threatens.

So while the effects technology will bring to the workplace is our focus

today….

It is vital that you be an educated, active voice in the debate technology

will surely bring us tomorrow

Get educated today so that you can stay employable and competitive.

Almost every industry on the planet is going through the same rapid technological changes

we are facing in radio

If a component of any industry or an entire industry itself does not, or cannot change

and adapt it is quickly being replaced

This is surprising nobody, everybody is awarethis is happening all around them…

Don’t bury your head in the sand and try to convince yourself that the same thing does not

apply to your job

AND EQUALLY AS IMPORTANT

Get educated so tomorrow you can participate in possibly the most important

dialogue in the history of mankind

The machine has brought with it all the earmarksAnd potential of an elitist society

If common people do not stay informed and educated, the decisions that control our lives

will be made in laboratories, at universities and in private government meetings

When common people lose touch with the ideas and philosophies that make up the framework of our lives we are no longer people. We become parts of the machine

Technology can bring us many blessings and things we cannot even imagine today. If we

cannot meet our responsibility to stay educated we may very possibly surrender things like

humanity compassion

God

liberty

Nothing is worth that…

Not even personal jetpacks…

TECHNOLOGYWhat does that word mean to you?Remember your answer to that questionBecause it may be about to change

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