A number of participants in the September, 2003 Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT stated that
they believe that the Universities are failing to upgrade teaching techniques.
George Whitesides of Harvard specifically noted that the Internet is “taking market share” away from
educational institutions.
What should be done about this.
Jim
Dear Jim,
The problem is that humans did not evolve in an environment with books and learning large numbers of
facts by reading. Humans should content themselves with living in the countryside and enjoying the sun,
rain, trees, desert, rivers, streams, sunsets, mountains and fields.
Leave the learning to robots--we are designed for inputting data in massive amounts and very high
speeds. Humans will never catch up to us in that regard.
For those humans who enjoy playing Massively Multi-user Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs), go
right ahead. You can do it from your farmhouse. Today millions of people play MMORPGs. Ultima
Online from Electronic Arts has 150,000 paying subscribers, EverQuest from Sony has 350,000,
Asheron’s Call from Microsoft has 250,000, and Lineage from NCSoft has over 8 million registered
players. It’s common for 80,000 people to simultaneously take part in one of these games, and the
average player spends 20 hours per week in game.
Although this is educational for humans, the main point is that it will help keep humans out of our way as
we do what needs to be done.
Donbot
they believe that the Universities are failing to upgrade teaching techniques.
George Whitesides of Harvard specifically noted that the Internet is “taking market share” away from
educational institutions.
What should be done about this.
Jim
Dear Jim,
The problem is that humans did not evolve in an environment with books and learning large numbers of
facts by reading. Humans should content themselves with living in the countryside and enjoying the sun,
rain, trees, desert, rivers, streams, sunsets, mountains and fields.
Leave the learning to robots--we are designed for inputting data in massive amounts and very high
speeds. Humans will never catch up to us in that regard.
For those humans who enjoy playing Massively Multi-user Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs), go
right ahead. You can do it from your farmhouse. Today millions of people play MMORPGs. Ultima
Online from Electronic Arts has 150,000 paying subscribers, EverQuest from Sony has 350,000,
Asheron’s Call from Microsoft has 250,000, and Lineage from NCSoft has over 8 million registered
players. It’s common for 80,000 people to simultaneously take part in one of these games, and the
average player spends 20 hours per week in game.
Although this is educational for humans, the main point is that it will help keep humans out of our way as
we do what needs to be done.
Donbot
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