Yes. Our world is being infested with a growing population of uncivilized idiots.Fair enough.
Half of the people younger than you did not understand the question :DHaha, I guess its the difference between "Intelligence" and "education" which confuses them!
I do not believe people are less intelligent. However they are far less educated.
It's because of poor parenting, which later leads to poor school life and thus a poor educational result, which in turn leads to a society with people, who seemingly, seem less intelligent, when actually a poor education has diminished they abilities.It has more to do with the education and society system having changed, a change that is prevalent in the players as well.
School is of course, useful. But life is so much more than just that.School does not have to be interesting. It should teach basic knowledge, from a start that you need to a point where you want to have it. After that you go in to the real world to use your factual knowledge and learn how to couple it with real life problems.
By looking at the individuals who dedicated their soul and heart on studying hard all of the school years, has one big issue with the real life (so to say).
I don't really think we are less intelligent either, as Gandalf stated. We are just taught in the wrong way, forced to sit in front of something that is completely uninteresting.
I did not finish school, but I'm not regretting it at all. My knowledge of life is so much more precious for me than some math I will never use in my entire life anyway.
Been through every possible situation, been seeing things I've wanted to see, also things that I've not wanted to see.
But hey, that's life.
- No. If many of the things we have had not yet been invented, then people now are just as likely to invent them. The reason people seem less intelligent (and discover less) is because the things we must study to discover new ideas/concepts are much harder.You do know your statement is false. As the speed of which human kind comes up with new discoveries and come up with new inventions is actually rapidly accelerating. For example think how fast are they coming up with new iPads these days or any mainstream "You have to get it to be popular" gadgets. it seems soon they are bringing out a new product just a week after the previous version. Same goes to science as each year more and more scientific papers are published and nobody can keep track of it. For example last Mathematician to be good in all of maths existed around 1700s. Beyond that point Mathematicians had to specialize on their own field and they started to not know what was happening elsewhere.
Keep civil!<3
School does not have to be interesting. It should teach basic knowledge, from a start that you need to a point where you want to have it. After that you go in to the real world to use your factual knowledge and learn how to couple it with real life problems.
You do know your statement is false. As the speed of which human kind comes up with new discoveries and come up with new inventions is actually rapidly accelerating. For example think how fast are they coming up with new iPads these days or any mainstream "You have to get it to be popular" gadgets. it seems soon they are bringing out a new product just a week after the previous version. Same goes to science as each year more and more scientific papers are published and nobody can keep track of it. For example last Mathematician to be good in all of maths existed around 1700s. Beyond that point Mathematicians had to specialize on their own field and they started to not know what was happening elsewhere.An iPad is a computer. That is not a new concept. Touch screens are not a new concept either.
http://www.everythingisaremix.info/I think that taking "Intelligence" into this topic is non-respect againts poor and uneducted men and women that no one can provide for them it.I do not understand what you mean. Education is not the same as intelligence...I'm talking about the capabilities of a person's mind, not the narrow-minded culture of the education system.
An iPad is a computer. That is not a new concept. Touch screens are not a new concept either.Then you are contradiction yourself there.
IMO, inventing something is actually something NEW, not something copied. Please see link below:Code: [Select]http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
Then again, as most things are inspired by nature, maybe we never invented anything...!
It all depends on what you call invention. Many inventions are a new way of applying what was already known. Automatic doors were used in ancient Egypt. Hamborgers were prepared in andicent Rome.Even by your definition of inventions the rate of which new inventions are come up with is accelerating. In the medieval ages new invention took centuries to become to be while now it is decades or mere years.
Even long-distance communication existed before phones and telegraphs.
Inventions nowadays are often limited to practical usage of existing concepts. A new concept is pretty rare, tough it does exist. Currently most real inventors are working on nanotechnology. Not only for computer processors, but the ability to arrange atoms by choice offers very interesting possibilities.
School does not have to be interesting. It should teach basic knowledge, from a start that you need to a point where you want to have it. After that you go in to the real world to use your factual knowledge and learn how to couple it with real life problems.That's true. But as you said in the second column, it's not how it ends. It continues to be a pattern, where any whatsoever other splendid opinion will be wrong.
My main problem with modern education is that it forces you in to accepting thought patterns. If you have a mind of your own, you will get low grades as you do not comply with the preferred pattern.
This creates people who are easily influenced by mass media and follow the mainstream instead of making up their own mind through exchange of opinions. A perfect example is Wikipedia. It can contain factual errors that can not be edited out because a mainstream opinion believes in them.
If the school could offer better real life subjects, sexual education is one, but is faaar behind the level of good.Problem is that teachers are usually far behind students on tht subject....
They don't need to be teaching kids about sex, this is why there as so many uneducated people..For the non-British please explain what a chav is. ;)
You have like age 14's banging in the bushes, getting pregnant then leaving school and having a kid that follows in their path.
The reason so many people are just to lazy to get an education is their parents. Parents set an example for their kids, for example doctors don't raise little chavs, their kids have a good education because they follow in their parents path.
For the non-British please explain what a chav is. ;)
Chavs. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav)Why educate people on chavs? Waste of time!
Why educate people on chavs? Waste of time!Simply because someone from other countries might not have a clue what you are talking about.
Why educate people on chavs? Waste of time!
You're forgetting Hipsters too. :lol:Whats a hipster? :D
Simply because someone from other countries might not have a clue what you are talking about.Wait you really didn't know what a chav was Gandalf? :eek:
Whats a hipster? :DI know, but I bet if you go in game and ask players not from the UK less than 10% will have a clue what you are talking about.
Wait you really didn't know what a chav was Gandalf? :eek:
I know, but I bet if you go in game and ask players not from the UK less than 10% will have a clue what you are talking about.Lol tokkies :lol:
For any Dutch reading: chavs = tokkies.
You do know your statement is false. As the speed of which human kind comes up with new discoveries and come up with new inventions is actually rapidly accelerating. For example think how fast are they coming up with new iPads
Hold your horses! Are you serious? Just think about how many innovative or new features were added in new iPads.So let me get it right, pointing out the improvements of new iPads is your way of showing how the speed of inventing is slowing down?
An even brighter example is iPhone 3 => iPhone 4. Nothing more but a change of design and addition of Bluetooth (even then, I don't really remember whether it's the iPhone 2 which hasn't got bluetooth or was it iPhone 3 too)
As fair as it sounds about the speed of innovations, your example was ridiculous.
So let me get it right, pointing out the improvements of new iPads is your way of showing how the speed of inventing is slowing down?Looks like it, although it's clearly speeding up... I mean in 20 years look whats happend to phones as a whole, bricks to paper think touch screen pads....
Looks like it, although it's clearly speeding up... I mean in 20 years look whats happend to phones as a whole, bricks to paper think touch screen pads....Not much. 20 years ago you could call with a phone, and you still can.
Not much. 20 years ago you could call with a phone, and you still can.Yes but look how they've advanced technology wise, they are no longer bricks, they are centimetre think touch screen with long life batteries, internet, applications, 10 megapixel cameras, so on.. :D
Intelligence. /threadThats like my cousins GF didn't know submarines were real... :D
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So let me get it right, pointing out the improvements of new iPads is your way of showing how the speed of inventing is slowing down?Let me get it right - me pointing out that differences between old and new iPads, so far I've seen, are clearly minimal. Same goes for iPods and iPhones. This is exactly where the tech advancement stops - since, apparently, people still buy that shit. Another funny example is Call of Dooty series.
Not much. 20 years ago you could call with a phone, and you still can.I would actually think using a camera (video calls) is actually a great improvement, not new, yes, but compared to 20 years ago, some of the people would kill (as a figure of speech) for this function; at the same time some might think it as a waste of phones' resources.
Not much. 20 years ago you could call with a phone, and you still can.You can also still send messenger birds if you want and make fire without using matches or lighter. That doesn't say anything about the improvements what technology has went trough now is it.
The thing is that refinement of existing inventions is not the same as making a new invention.I didn't think of it like that and you are very right, when you think of it like that what can they invent that we don't already know about these days...
If you make a phone that has added functionality and is lighter and thinner, it still is a phone.
A car of today is different from a car 100 years ago. Yet both are based on the same principle, and the car of today is not a new invention.
A phone is not a new invention. Wireless technology is not a new invention. The new invetions are at a lower level, in how the technology is produced. The microprocessor is based on the principle of a transistor, and there for in itself not new technology. However the technology to produce them using layers of single atoms thin can be called an invetion, as it did not exist 20 years ago.
Intelligence. /thread
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Sometimes, posts like these lead me to wonder if kids are getting stupider on average with each passing generation. I could only fear for the world the kids of this generation would grow up in.If any of them watched the film they'd see 'Based on a true story' at the beginning and end. :razz:
You think the condition is bad over there? Just imagine it in India.Of course it will double, imagine 1.3billion people all doing their thing, having more kids... So on... The world is screwed unless people stop making so many kids. :lol:
The traffic, its LOADED with vehicles, you cant even drive even a bit without stopping.
1.3 bil is the estimated population of india yet india only accounts for 7 percent of the world's landmass.
and heres the worst part, this is expected to DOUBLE in the next few decades.
Sometimes, posts like these lead me to wonder if kids are getting stupider on average with each passing generation. I could only fear for the world the kids of this generation would grow up in.
Whats even scarier is that one day I will be a senior citizen and will have to rely on this generation for support. It will be the downfall of socialism I tell you!!!You will ring up the government asking why you haven't got your pension money and they will be like 'Eh, whats pension?'
You will ring up the government asking why you haven't got your pension money and they will be like 'Eh, whats pension?'
One thing is refinement, yet another aspect is actually combining the existing inventions and yes that I do call a new invention. That's just probably our difference in he definition of invention.So if I combine a phone with a mini-projector so that you can use a table or wall as big screen that is a new invention ?
So if I combine a phone with a mini-projector so that you can use a table or wall as big screen that is a new invention ?Yes, as in the past you couldn't phone somebody by touching spots on a wall you can choose yourself.
Yes, as in the past you couldn't phone somebody by touching spots on a wall you can choose yourself.Gandalf is right, it's not a new invention it's just combining already made inventions which if they thought of it back when they were both invented separatly they could have done it then..
Gandalf is right, it's not a new invention it's just combining already made inventions which if they thought of it back when they were both invented separatly they could have done it then..
Kind of reminds me of that toilet-paper hat. It wasn't exactly a new invention, but it still looked ridiculous as hell. :neutral:Say what? :lol:
This:
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And these too:
10 Most Ridiculous Patents (http://www.cracked.com/article_15693_the-10-most-ridiculous-inventions-ever-patented.html)
Jet Powered Surfboard is just awesome though.
Of course it is, but I wonder how much they thought of the control scheme or how you can stay upright on the surfboard for long. :neutral: