Shift Happens Captain Charles V. Balch MEd, MBA, PhD

Off the Grid Keep it Simple 40 ft Sailboat – $35K Every major island in the Caribbean (for $200 fuel) 2 Solar panels Six Batteries Lights, fans, stereo, notebook computer –No fridge –No hot water

What to with Limited Resources Learn to use less – Greater efficiencies – Sacrifice/Do without Appreciate what you have Steal from someone else Find alternatives – It’s fun to buy food daily

Third Stage of the Industrial Revolution First Machines extended muscle Second Machines extend senses Third Machines extend mind

Expect Change The top ten in demand jobs for 2010 – did not exist in 2004 We are currently preparing students for jobs that do not exist… Using technologies that don’t yet exist… To solve problems we don’t know are problems … yet…

New Communities If MySpace were a country it would be the 5 th largest in the world (between Indonisia and Brazil). There are 31 billion Google Searches each month The first text message was sent in 1992 – Today the number of daily text message exceeds the population of the planet.

Name this Country Richest in the World Largest Military Center of world business and finance Strongest education system World center of innovation and invention Currency the world standard of value Highest standard of living

England in 1900

Future Computer Trends Smaller, faster, cheaper – Cell phones are a million times cheaper, a thousand times more powerful, a hundred thousand times smaller than computers built in – What used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket – computer will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years 500 years to figure out book technology Facebook, Google, Twitter, Ebay – More ideas out there

Computers as Smart as Humans By the year The next half century will see 32 times the amount of innovation of the last half. We can expect a super computer that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain by By 2049 a thousand dollar computer will exceed the capabilities of the human species.

Man versus Machine? Machine – Straight storage and retrieval of information – Defined calculations Human – Able to love – Association of different strands of information – To look ahead/plan – Creativity

Survival of the Fittest What is the Skill Set Best prepares? Darwin’s Peppered Moth

My Winner Predictions Ability to see the big picture Ability to quickly find and comprehend needed facts Love of life – Virtual Reality will be the ultimate addiction Charismatic communication