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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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04 Oct 2004 02:59:16 PM |
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OT: Long Road to Universal Education |
Long Road to Universal Education
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4783-2004Oct3.html
By Sebastian Mallaby, Page A23
Last week Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rep. Nita Lowey, her fellow
New York Democrat, unveiled a bill that would make universal education
in the poor world a U.S. government objective. Yesterday James
Wolfensohn, the World Bank's president, spoke extensively about this
goal in his speech at the bank's annual meeting. Both the bill and the
speech are pushing the right way, since schooling offers an escape
from poverty and since the dearth of schools financed by Western aid
creates a vacuum to be filled by hate-preaching madrassas. But these
calls for universal education, like most grand development targets,
need to be treated with caution. If people believe that development
advocates are promising to get all children into school by some
certain date, they may turn against aid when these targets prove
unattainable.
Sebastian Mallaby
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Universal Education
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Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
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"Perhaps 99 per cent of all the men who have ever lived have known
only need; they have been driven by necessity and have not been
allowed the luxury of choice," Clarke philosophizes. " In the future,
this will no longer be true. It maybe the greatest virtue of the
UltraIntelligent (UI) machine that it will force us to think about the
purpose and meaning of human existence. It will compel us to make some
far-reaching and perhaps painful decisions, just as thermonuclear
weapons have made us face the realities of war and aggression, after
five thousand years of pious jabber." Clarke imagines AI machines
taking over all but the most creative and trivial human work,
inserting themselves into the loop between humans, work, creativity
and entertainment.
To co-exist with UltraIntelligent (UI) machines and hold our own,
Clarke posits, the entire human race, without exception, must reach
the literacy level of the average college graduate -within the next 50
years.
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"Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!" by Arthur C. Clarke, Ian MacAuley
(Editor)
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Arthur C. Clarke
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