1. By 2037, education will be highly individualized with computers helping to assess each student's learning style and create tailored learning plans. Digital assistants will take over basic classroom tasks from teachers. Online learning will be established in all classrooms due to improved computer access.
2. Many careers that will exist in 2037 do not exist today. Students will learn skills like adaptability, initiative, and leadership that can be applied across different fields. Digital technologies will automate menial jobs, focusing humans on more intellectual work.
3. Daily life will be digitally convenient through voice-controlled smart homes and digital assistants. Virtual reality and wearable computers will provide people with constant access to information. Driverless
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1. By 2037, education will be highly individualized with computers helping to assess each student's learning style and create tailored learning plans. Digital assistants will take over basic classroom tasks from teachers. Online learning will be established in all classrooms due to improved computer access.
2. Many careers that will exist in 2037 do not exist today. Students will learn skills like adaptability, initiative, and leadership that can be applied across different fields. Digital technologies will automate menial jobs, focusing humans on more intellectual work.
3. Daily life will be digitally convenient through voice-controlled smart homes and digital assistants. Virtual reality and wearable computers will provide people with constant access to information. Driverless
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The Unborn World of 2037
Heidi Brausch
Lib 686 Emerging Technologies Mary Bucy and Bill Hamlin 16 March 2014
2 Introduction A look ahead 23 years in the future, to the year 2037, and we can foresee many technological advances that will greatly affect our lives and our world. Research in the fields of technology, science, economics, education, and health have unearthed innovations that will change how we live, work, and think. Our everyday lives will be vastly different, more convenient, and highly individualized compared to our lives today.
Education Education in the year 2037 will be highly individualized, with computers helping us assess our students. According to IBM, computers will monitor how students learn best by detecting their learning style and pace (IBM, N.D.). Teachers will use the computer data along with their own knowledge and observations to create a learning plan tailored to each child. The plan will then be implemented but changes will be made when necessary according to the childs progress. Digital assistants will begin to appear in classrooms. These assistants will do basic tasks in order to lessen the load of teachers. They will complete duties that dont require them to learn on their own, feel emotions, respond to open-ended questions or hold a conversation. Due to the delay of current technologies reaching elementary classrooms, by 2037 online learning will be fully established in all classrooms. Access to computers will significantly progress allowing all schools to benefit from using computers. 3 More people will graduate from college. This change will only occur if colleges alter the format of school to better relate to students. Education that is integral and applicable to life will be the new face of universities. The Horizon Report estimates that over the next 12 years [there will be] a 25% increase in global higher education attendance (Horizon Report, 2014). This increase will triple by 2037, not only from higher access to computers but also free online classes and readily available information. Education will continue well into adulthood due to the information provided by experts in their field of knowledge. Virtual reality, 3-D learning, robots, alternate worlds, and video games will all be incorporated into education. Student learning will be enhanced through the use of these everyday tools and through students constant access to information. Education will change from being condensed to one room to something that constantly happens across all facets of life. Education will be spread across a students whole day. The term internship that we know today will be closely related to the definition of school in the year 2037. Students will no longer sit in desks and face the front of the room. Instead learning will be hands-on, student-led, and take place in the field. Students will work together to solve real world problems in real time. Their solutions will be applied to real life creating in them a sense of responsibility for their learning that is absent in todays students. Careers Many of the careers of the future do not exist today. Therefore students will be learning skills that can be applied to any field of work. Life and work 4 environments require far more than thinking skills and content knowledge. The ability to navigate the complex life and work environments in the globally competitive information age requires students to pay rigorous attention to developing adequate life and career skills, such as flexibility and adaptability, initiative and self-direction, social and cross-cultural skills, productivity and accountability, and leadership and responsibility (Partnership for 21 st Century Skills, N.D.). Skills like these will be essential to the success of students in the jobs of 2037. Because there will be a major increase in access to information, students will also need to know how to filter through the mush to find relevant and truthful data. Although many people argue that digital and robotic technologies will take the place of human jobs, these technologies will actually make our lives easier. Digital technologies will take over menial jobs allowing humans to concentrate on in-depth, intellectual work. These sophisticated jobs will require advanced skills that only people can deliver.
Leisure In 2037, home life will be digitally convenient for everyone. Digital assistants will manage day-to-day tasks all by the sound of our voice. All aspects of the home will be digitally connected. Any device in your home that uses electricity can be put on your home network and at your command (Edmonds & Chandler, N.D.). Gaming will be a major part of living. A point system will be used in every home to increase the standard of living. People will accrue points based off of amount of exercise, healthy eating habits, and other activities they complete. 5 Rewards will be given for good behavior and points will be taken away for unwanted behavior. With the current achievement of Google glass, virtual technology of the future will be fully established in our every day lives. We will receive information at a faster pace through the use of miniscule computers that will link images we see straight to our eye. Finding lost items in the future will become easier. GPS devices will allow us to locate any item in our possession. These GPS dots, or minute tracking devices, will be used everywhere in the world and allow us to search our possessions (Humphreys, 2014). Convenience will be the name of the game in 2037. Our privacy will lessen as we accept these technologies, but our lives will no doubt change immensely. In the field of health, personalization will be at the center. Personal genomes will be available for doctors to diagnose patients conditions. Each persons personal health information will help doctors find proper combination of medications that dont cause allergies or have side effects for the individual patient. Tests will be done in lab settings to analyze the affect certain treatments have on a patients genome. Petrie dish testing will solve the problem of unwanted side effects and other problems patients face with medication. Cloud based systems will speed up treatment solutions to a matter of minutes (IBM, N.D.). Gene therapy will allow prospective parents to create designer babies based off of their desirable genes. "As technology advances it is possible that any number of human characteristics in part influenced by genes could come under human control. Right now there is an enormous amount of research being 6 conducted to correlate specific genes with specific characteristics (CNN, 2008). Parents will be able to choose certain genes they want their child to have. This advancement will reduce the amount of diseases and other genetic illnesses.
Tools The information of our lives will soon take a solely digital format. Paper copies will only be available as a backup to the digital copies, and even then paper copies will be scarce and only for large global databases. All information will be available in a digital format from any device, at any time, anywhere in the world. People will be constantly connected to others across the planet. Computers will allow us to communicate even more instantly than we do today. Collaboration with experts and amateurs will happen instantaneously. More databases like Wikipedia will exist on varying scales. Anyone will be able to publish, create, share and sell items. People will be so connected it will be as if they are in the next room. Along with digital information, clothing and accessories will also take on the same format. Watches, glasses, t-shirts, and sneakers will constantly collect information about the wearer. Information will be transferred about weather, terrain, environment, and health. Clothing will be able to monitor our heart rate and overall health multiple times a day. Driverless cars will be everywhere. Driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people. Almost all of those are due to human error (Thrun, 2011). The universal usage of driverless cars will prevent millions of deaths 7 worldwide. Traffic jams would not exist. People would gain over an hour a day instead of sitting in traffic.
Conclusion The unborn world of 2037 has great changes in store for everyone. Our everyday lives will be vastly different, more convenient, and highly individualized compared to our lives today. The acceleration of these technologies will be upon us soon and we will then see the affect they have. As we look to the future, many are thinking, We were born too soon. The best is yet to come (U.S. News and World Report, 1967).
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