LogFAQs > #927653576

LurkerFAQs, Active DB, DB1, DB2, DB3, DB4, Database 5 ( 01.01.2019-12.31.2019 ), DB6, DB7, DB8, DB9, DB10, DB11, DB12, Clear

Topic List	Page List: 1
Topic	interest payments on the nation's debt will exceed federal spending on children
CableZL 09/19/19 10:09:58 AM #13:	Jabodie posted... CableZL posted... Baby boomers prepared their children for the world they lived in and not the world we would actually experience. I get what you're saying, but how exactly where baby boomers expected to see the future? Particularly with how quickly these have changed in the last few decades. As a grown adult, I would think you would be much more... "aware..." of how the world is changing than your children would be. That Hidden Figures movie illustrates an example of this very well. It's about these black women who worked at NASA in 1961 as mathematicians. The civil rights aspect of it aside, NASA mathematicians were doing all of their calculations with basic calculators and by hand on paper and blackboards. At one point, IBM installed a computer that would take the place of human mathematicians and do their job incredibly more efficiently. One of the women saw that the computer would essentially be able to do her job and would probably replace the entire team of mathematicians if it worked. So at one point she decided to steal a book about the Fortran programming language that the computer operated on from the whites only section of the library to learn how the computer worked. Because of that, she not only learn how it worked, but also knew how to fix problems with the computer. She went even further and taught the other women she worked with to spread the knowledge to them. The computer did end up replacing the mathematicians, but because the women knew how to operate and maintain the computer by that time, they were able to continue working at NASA in other departments instead of just getting laid off like the other mathematicians. I get that this is a rare trait, but I would hope that more people will think about how the world is today and how upcoming changes in technology or whatever else could affect the future when raising children instead of just teaching children the way of the world they grew up in and leaving it at that. --- https://i.imgtc.com/d9Fc4Qq.gif https://i.imgtc.com/BKHTxYq.gif https://i.imgtc.com/vYYIuDx.jpg <cite>CableZL posted [p:927653576] in interest p... [t:78025641]...</cite> <quote>Jabodie posted...</cite> <quote>CableZL posted...</cite> <quote>Baby boomers prepared their children for the world they lived in and not the world we would actually experience.</quote> I get what you're saying, but how exactly where baby boomers expected to see the future? Particularly with how quickly these have changed in the last few decades.</quote> As a grown adult, I would think you would be much more... "aware..." of how the world is changing than your children would be. That Hidden Figures movie illustrates an example of this very well. It's about these black women who worked at NASA in 1961 as mathematicians. The civil rights aspect of it aside, NASA mathematicians were doing all of their calculations with basic calculators and by hand on paper and blackboards. At one point, IBM installed a computer that would take the place of human mathematicians and do their job incredibly more efficiently. One of the women saw that the computer would essentially be able to do her job and would probably replace the entire team of mathematicians if it worked. So at one point she decided to steal a book about the Fortran programming language that the computer operated on from the whites only section of the library to learn how the computer worked. Because of that, she not only learn how it worked, but also knew how to fix problems with the computer. She went even further and taught the other women she worked with to spread the knowledge to them. The computer did end up replacing the mathematicians, but because the women knew how to operate and maintain the computer by that time, they were able to continue working at NASA in other departments instead of just getting laid off like the other mathematicians. I get that this is a rare trait, but I would hope that more people will think about how the world is today and how upcoming changes in technology or whatever else could affect the future when raising children instead of just teaching children the way of the world they grew up in and leaving it at that. --- https://i.imgtc.com/d9Fc4Qq.gif https://i.imgtc.com/BKHTxYq.gif https://i.imgtc.com/vYYIuDx.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Topic List	Page List: 1