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Yep, Mark Zuckerburg as lame as that guy can seem will be one of the most important people in modern U.S. history due to how he is warring for and driving with his money the push to reinvent the public school system. Every American child will have a person, ultra-interactive computer within a few years and ever education will be personally tailored. Teachers will be there as technicians and people to provide human expression learning, etc.

The Asian giants are totally educating based on STEM curriculum. They will lap us within 10 years. We need to implement change.

The problem with a STEM curriculum is that an unbelievably large percentage of the country objects to scientific teachings based on its conflict with religion.

As nice as it would be to actually have a functional education system, way too many people think learning about the invisible man in the sky is more important than science.

The problem is, thanks to those few disciplines (evolution, stem cell research, etc.), science as a whole has gotten a bad rap among the religious. There's a very clear Religion - Science dichotomy among large factions of American society. Science is seen as incompatible with religion, and that spreads out to other research.

On top of that, the problem is compounded by the inherent problems in turning to faith instead of science. Where science sees a lack of knowledge and sparks research and investigation, faith says "God works in mysterious ways." Having an omnipotent overlord who's responsible for everything leads to a marked passivity when it comes to innovation and exploration. So much of human drive comes from our inability to explain certain things, and slapping the "God" tag on everything is a cheap cop-out that hurts everyone.

Its like you repeated yourself. The Vatican itself has a science department. Christians are all up in each of these fields. Christians aren't as serious about Christianity as you think they are. Big talk, no walk.

Plus, like I said, most of these fields have nothing to do with design or biology. Most of it is electrical, Chemical, design, and math. They dont have issues with that.

Education is about to get flipped on its head by robotics, AI and computing. It's exponential man. It's going to get wild.

Teachers will be so augmented they wont be able to screw it up. They wont be doing much of the teaching.

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It's nuts when you start to think about it.

and all of the problems that come with overpopulation.

As I understand, under current lifespans, world population is on pace to get to 10 bilion before it begins to level off. Also this will bring on all sorts of economic problems if we have to support retirement programs for an average of 40-50 years for each individual. When Social Security was enacted, the average length of collection was 3-4 years.

Won't be an issue. The world will change in ways over the next 15 years few understand because humans have thought locally and linearly their entire existent. The world is now operating globally and expontentially so there's no mystery why few can't project it.

By 2025 85% of the world will likely be literate. Many pursuing GED and A.A. level certifications in developing nations and masters degrees in emerging economies. Health care will decentralize and improve by orders of magnitude. Global birth rates per household will drop quickly. Education always leads to a decrease in # of children. Families stop planning for their kids to have to work their farm and quit having extra kids in case one dies like they have for eons.

BLF said it, the world will continue to shift towards fewer people living longer. That shift does not, at this time, appear to have many limiting factors either.

You just somehow took my posts and turned me into a naive utopian predictor. Nice. I believe that radical Islam is the sole force that will war against human progress the longest and strongest. When most of the world is under spectacular, individualized health care, working 25 hours a week to make a purchasing power salary double what we do now, etc etc etc there will still be turban wearing loons living in caves piecing together nuclear bombs because "Allah wants them too"

We will have MANY issues. I think we overcome them.