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• A comment on Conversation: Will Automation Lead to Economic Collapse?

  Sep 14 2012: In theory yes, economy should collapse. As the purchasing power of people drops and the production power rises this system and the economy as we know it can't function. But in reality it's more of a transition. Towards what i don't know but the transition is already taking place and any transition is hard.
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  A comment on Conversation: Does society need more interdisciplinary work? Or more well-rounded individuals working together?

  Apr 3 2012: I think we need both specialists and generalists in our society, and i also think there are not enough generalists. Also a group of generalists has better problem solving power than a group of specialists in diverse fields, simply because they can communicate and understand each other more easily.
  
  In my opinion a generalist also has a better understanding of the world he lives in and probably a more flexible thinking.
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  A comment on Talk: Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks

  Feb 5 2012: Knowing the recipe made me predict the end of the talk. :)

• A reply on Conversation: Roughly 52% of the world's population is under 30. What is best way to harness the energy and ideas of youth?

  Feb 3 2012: Bravo! Very well said.True, every letter! I would complete with a message for parents: stop trying to control everything your kids do and let them experiment. You can give them a way better education by collaborating with them, than by fighting agaist them.
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  A comment on Talk: Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun

  Jan 30 2012: I hear him, but I strongly feel that the more we invest in education, the less we'll need to invest in weapons. This hysteria of investing more than half of the countries budget in military, just for defense, just because others invest too and we need to have this so they will not invade us is completely unsane.
  
  We need to completely redesign our society, but until then, with all the, insane and unsane people that rule the world i agree we all need guns. The faster we overcome these imaginary boundaries that divide us by nationality and the faster we declare earth's resources as the common heritage of ALL people the better the chance we'll go in a new era in which humanity will fulfill its potential.
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  A reply on Conversation: I'm seeking direction for my future after i graduate this May 2012.

  Jan 29 2012: In my opinion an era of automation will come in the near future and any human can be replaced by technology. Japanese are working at human faces, so you can be sure that after they perfect the faces and make them reflect emotions to all the TV commercials actors and later the stars from Hollywood will be replaced by these.
  
  What I want to say with generalist is accumulating knowledge in vast domains, so if you need to reorient towards other job it will be easy for you. Not necessarily you have the required knowledge for the new job but you have some basics and a flexible mind. Being a TED member shows you are in the right direction and you are open minded.
  
  That's for the future. In the next few years you can make something with your degree, but think about how will it serve 40 years from now. We study to get a degree, but that's not the end of it, we'll have to keep learning new things and have the right attitude towards learning. If you ask me, after you finish your studies and get a job, more or less the one you wanted, you start gaining the experience that can put your college knowledge in a context.
  
  I don't know how explicit i was with that, but i hope it is useful for you. That's really the maximum capacity of expressing myself in English. Good luck!

• A reply on Conversation: An education system built on psychology and the cultivation of innate strengths and interests - with a focus on philosophy

  Jan 29 2012: I agree psychology is important, but imposing disciplines to be studied by kids can't be good. Humans have a born curiosity towards the mechanics of the world and what parents should do is make their kids want to learn and inhibit them. When the kid asks "Why is the grass green?" the paren't shouldn't reply "How you expect to be, blue?" and make the kid feel stupid. Instead he should say: "I don't know but if you can find out from that book/website or other place!". Also the evironment and the media promotes very bad models to kids.
  
  Most boys are raised to always be competitive and in "fight mode" and i can speak for myself in this case, while girls are raised towards fake material values (boys too in fact). And if you are rational and question the values that the evironment forces in your brain, you will feel inadequate and you'll have a hard time relating to anyone, so you will have poor inter personal relationships.
  
  In a nutshell, the educational system is anti nature and environment we live in is anti education. Hmmm, I wonder why it works so bad?

• A comment on Conversation: An education system built on psychology and the cultivation of innate strengths and interests - with a focus on philosophy

  Jan 29 2012: Bucky Fuller: "Buckminster Fuller attended Milton Academy in Massachusetts, and after that began studying at Harvard University. He was expelled from Harvard twice: first for spending all his money partying with a vaudeville troupe, and then, after having been readmitted, for his "irresponsibility and lack of interest.""
  
  Albert Einstein: "His father intended for him to pursue electrical engineering, but Einstein clashed with authorities and resented the school's regimen and teaching method. He later wrote that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning."
  
  Jacque Fresco: "Precocious as a child, Fresco's interests did not pertain to the topics presented to him at school. Unwilling, or unable, to conform with the setting of formal education, he sought a self-directed education throughout his later teen years.Fresco spent many days of his youth at the local library."
  
  Steve Jobs: "Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple."
  
  So YES! The educational system is completely unnatural and if you ask me or specialists in this field they will say that it inhibits real expansive growing and kills curiosity, creativity, self trust and conditons humans towards authority, conformity and blindly listening.
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  A reply on Conversation: Why do we need violence to transfer power?

  Jan 29 2012: I think this discussion is not for this century. Women indeed are less prone to physical violence, but that doesn't mean they can't make decisions of sending troops in other countries or nuke an enemy one. I doubt Obama thrown a punch in his life but that doesn't mean he doesn't take malevolent decisions. I think that as long as we have a system based on money and competition for survival, scarcity and crime will always exist.

• A comment on Conversation: Why do we need violence to transfer power?

  Jan 29 2012: Well, first of all, if you think revolutions are a type of mass manipulation, you are a cynical. I think that as we evolve technologically, changes that are very hard to predict, take place. And i also don't believe that we, as humans hold on to our positions. Only the rich people who have a very good life hold on to this socio-economic system. And these people are a few but they concentrate a massive amount of power in their hands. They are in privileged positions, and many of them are also unsane psychologically speaking. They are money and power junkies that will do anything to preserve things as they are, so they can get more and more. But that's impossible when a communications revolutions happen, like the Gutenberg movable type printing, the telegraph/telephone, the TV and now the Internet and all the technological marvels that keep popping at an exponentially faster pace.
  
  We are at a crucial time in history, in which we make the step towards a real economy and sustainable one or we face extinction like Jeremy Rifkin said in his Empathic Civilization talk (I recommend watching the full 50 minutes talk on youtube RSA channel). What happens now all around the world is the result of awareness growth due to this interconnected online society. The establishment is rigid and they react the only way they know: brutal (see SOPA/PIPA/ACTA, police interventions against protesters, and the retraction of the money by banks, to name a few). So it's up to us, the more aware people from society to spread this awareness even farther and to come with solutions. And fortunately the billionaires who come from behind and are starting to really diminish the power of oil industry and other obsolete industries, are people with a broader view and without pshychopathological issues like some 20th century fossils. I really think that if we can't abolish this monetary system an change to something else, the more powerful people from the IT rvolution become, the better chance we have!