It showed that over the years, there had been changes to the dominant players of the world.
India/China(Past) ---> US(Present) ---> China(future?)
The fall of China in the past was due to China shutting off from the world during around 1500 thinking they have nothing to learn from the rest of the world.
We can thus learn that we have to constantly seek improvement in order to be a dominant player for an elaborated period of time.
People who have open perspective and willing to learn will accelerate exponentially, while those who are not interested in learning from others will fall.
As from the 2nd reading article - Innovation In The Reset World - we have to selectively forgetting the past and create the future. Basically it meant we have to accept changes in the world and improve. We have to plan for the future as well.
We also covered Technology and Human Development in class today.
The fundamental underlying question is whether a change will lead to human development or human development leads to a change.
I think human development would mean a change is required but a change may or may not lead to human development. A wrong decision would lead to human moving backwards.
I believe the 2 key areas of human development is Technology VS Social Human Development.
Human development is often classified into 3 broad areas namely Education, Life expectancy and Income.
In terms of technology to improve human life, we have come far especially in the last 50 years.
Nobody can deny how much technology have improved our standards of living.
However in terms of social human development, I believe we’re still a far cry from development.
Yes there are attempts to improve social areas but as from the 2nd video: The Millennium Development Goals, I picked out some of the key problems that still exist today.
- 1.2b live on $1 or less each day
- 800million suffer from hunger
- more than 1b people still do not have safe drinking water
- 121 million children are out of school
I learnt that changes is necessary for human development but we still need to improve on some areas and that we must subject the changes in the right way.
Something I would like to see the class focus more on is linking what we discussed back to how technology actually play roles in global dominance and human development because I feel it becomes a discussion about global dominance and human development without really linking how technology or what technology comes into play.
Overall I rate this class 8/10. :)
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