Hugo och Fred, åtta år, loggar in med datorvan precision! Foto: Helena Palena
Jaha- vad har vi här nu då! Kolla! Foto: Helena Palena
Läser boken om Steve Jobs liv. Hans credo var enkelhel och nytta. En av hans medarbetare var i ett så kallat underutvecklat land – eller primitivt om ni så önskar – och gav en ipad till en gosse på sex år som inte kunde läsa. Han kunde hantera läsplattan på direkten! Rena barnleken! Så hur kommer framtiden att te sig med tanke på att dom barn som föds nu kommer att bli hur vana som helst vid datorer. Och surfa på nätet och läsa både det ena och det andra. Få veta sanningar som vi inte borde få ta del av och så vidare. Du sköna nya värld kanske måste bli värre innan den kan bli bättre! Kanske nätet blir vår räddning.
Helena Palena 
Det är på gott och ont detta med datorer osv. Min son lärde sig med att skriva via datan för de har den i skolan, men jag är kluven. Jag anser att barnen inte ska förglömma det skrivna ordet, det är lika viktigt. Sen är det bra att de lär sig hantera datan, för det är teknikens år. Jag har lagt in en säkerhets spärr på våran så sonen inte kan gå in på vilka sidor som helst.
GillaGilla
Helena,
You ask:-
“So how will the future be given to babies born now will be how habit any computers”
I ask – how can we give a future to the babies – for a viable and socially sustainable world – somewhere well beyond the barbarities we are presently living in on a global scale?
The global economic crisis is capitalism’s end game. One cannot continue to deplete limited global resources utilised in the main for the populations living in a few wealthy nations; have global income distribution so heavily skewed to a few industrialised countries ( and increasingly concentrated within those countries within a few corporations and excessively wealthy individuals); export jobs from the wealthiest countries to exploit and produce for greater profitability from poorer countries while also decimating manufacturing industry at home with no substitutes for production or having any model in place for sustainable growth – and expect that the system, as it presently exists, will not collapse. The industrialised countries find that their populations are aging, and so in some sectors there is a need for labour, and this gives rise to immigration as a fact of structural need ( albeit some humanity can be involved such as in the acceptance of refugees).
It seems to me that the financialisation that had advanced significantly from around the 1970s has now produced a crisis of contradictions – the US is the world’s wealthiest economy – but its currency is not backed by anything while its defence expenditure increases each year and its deficit grows exponentially as a consequence. The European countries have fiscal problems which are being responded by the governments’ imposition of austerity measures – but in a recessionary/depression period, contracted public expenditure serve to deepen the economic slump and not stimulate the economy – but the banks are being repaid by way of the increasing demands being made by way of taxation and public sector cuts ( this I see as a process that will inevitably work its way from countries like Greece, Spain, Italy up to the Northern European countries).
On a global scale resources are not allocated where these are most needed – for there is no intelligent management of the world’s resources. Instead, we are in the main largely conditioned to accept the models that we live within and hardly have time to question the logic of what our societies do and whether or not the core policies are policies of viability – or – are destined to create conflict and ultimately socio-economic implosion. We have to change our value systems from local to global thinking and understand the nexus between “us” not primarily as “us” the nationality, but as members of a species sharing one planet facing a common set of global problems, being reliant on the same general pool of finite resources.
When things really do start to fall apart – technology ( such as the kid’s use of the computer) could assist in providing major solutions, not just in education, but on a global scale with the delivery of productive and practically useful information in industry, for transportation, for global water management, for increasing global agricultural production without depletking the soils nutrients, for answers to global climate change, for answers in the health sector and many other areas of human endeavour. The possibilities do exist for a re-configured global architecture operating in the interest of homo sapiens and for preservation of the single planet we all share.
But – we are presently locked into a models of petty nationalisms, economics of exploitation and governmental systems that are arm manufacturing and war-mongering, reliant on the following:-
i) Money
ii) Work for money
iii) Government taxes, having borrowed from banks that are not focused on social viability and human survival or global cohesion .
iv) Politicians being bought in large measure by moneyed and/or banking interests, and having sold their allegiances to the monetary system, the people in the so-called “democratic” system that elected them – are not the primary focus, but the moneyed interests whose objectives are at directly at variance with the interests of the majority of the populace who elected the leaders. The system as presently designed operates on the basis of global exploitation of resources in service of the few in the world, mis-use of resources, war-mongering, and now crushing austerity which is designed to pay bankers and not to direct a path to a better future for the people by relating the capacity of the physical world and its resources to the needs to people ( on a global scale).
Which system – as we are all becoming increasingly aware – once it stops working for a core of banking interests will have an opportunity to focus on human need?
But, the belief systems that we presently work within in a country seem to delimit our global awareness, and thus narrows our minds to our parochial concerns while not perceiving the ever present points of global interactivity ( oil is a great example of how we are linked – energy – shipping – finance), while the world as we know it rapidly disintegrates as these wider contradictory factors play out.
We are reasoning along one trajectory – but some questions are not being asked:-
A. On the macro level – Can a society continue with large deficits, lower productivity, an aging population and declining birth rate, and persons unwilling to perform certain jobs, while not designing a model that caters to social viability?
B. On the individual level – Can technology and new concepts of social constructs, designed to ensure social viability where human need takes precedence over pursuit of personal greed be identified, changed and made central in a society’s value system, and be inculcated within individual consciousness?
C. On the global level – can we consider ourselves as a species – “civilized” when organisations such as NATO – or the CIA – go round the world focused on resources control – or – manipulating political processes to have compliance by dropping tons of bombs in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and are trying hard as hell – to do the same shit yet again in Iran – are we party to this – or do we oppose it – why these wars?
A different mind-set will produce a different questions and different questions will open a window for different ideas to enter.
GillaGilla
Helena,
Here is a very practical explanation for why ”demoracy” while pursued by many and desired as an ideal, ends up being viewed cynically and with a bad image placed on it by reason of US foreign policy:-
http://www.zcommunications.org/cartagena-beyond-the-secret-service-scandal-by-noam-chomsky
GillaGilla
Kul att ungarna tar till sig tekniken så fort. Jag har en släkting som fyller fem i år. Hon hjälper sin mormor att hantera datorn. ”jag kan inte säger mormor” ”Jorå svarar 5-åringen ”jag ska visa dig”
GillaGilla
Enligt den berömde islamkritikern Ali Sina är internet det ljus som kommer att skingra mörkret i världen. Jag är beredd att hålla med honom, men denna ljusspridning tycks gå väldigt långsamt trots att nästan alla, eller i alla fall väldigt många, har haft tillgång till tekniken ganska länge nu. Vad kan detta ha för orsaker?
GillaGilla
Jag har skrivit om det tidigare (http://divage.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/framtidens-analfabeter-fostras-nu/ ) För visst dagens ungar är bra mycket duktigare med datorer än vi är. För dem blir det en naturligt del av livet. Men följden blir lätt att de kan sen varken läsa eller skriva, då funktioner som ersätter det är redan på intåg.
Det gör att det kommer växa upp en generation som blir på sätt och vis analfabeter igen. Medan en elit kommer utkristaliseras som kan behärska skrivandes och läsandes konst och ha en obeskrivligt makt över dem inte kan det.
GillaGilla
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Jag tror det är enbart positivt om de vill veta vad som verkligen händer i världen. Men det är ju individuellt. De som bara vill ta del av trams gör det ju oavsett hur tramset är tillgängligt.
Kram!
/Skvitt
GillaGilla
Smurfan: Klart ungarna ska lära sig skriva, läsa och räkna. Gossarna på bilden kan det. Är dessutom smarta och har lätt för sig. Tekniken ska vara ett hjälpmedel. Man får ju se till att barnen inte sitter där hela tiden. Det är ju självklart.
Magnus: Ja, det måste vara ljuset. Vad skulle annars kunna hjälpa oss. Nu vet vi – som vill veta – vad som pågår. Att det finns en osynlig hand och vilka som styr den. Så demokratin (läs Courtenays länkar) har ingen chans – allt blir bara ett spel för galleriet. Det blir intressant att följa hur det går i Grekland. De skulle helt enkelt bara kunna kliva ur och ta bort alla skulder och starta om. Men dom får inte.
Men nätet har inte funnits så länge så vi får ge det lite mer tid. Men det kanske blir som skvitts skriver: ”de som bara vill ta del av trams gör det ju oavsett hur tramset är tillgängligt.” Så kan det vara.
GillaGilla
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GillaGilla