PPT ATESTAT. maria.pptx

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Project Coordinator Student

CRISTINA NISTOR MELNIC MARIA GABRIELA

2013


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DESIGNING

THE

FUTURE


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People have always been intrigued of what the future will looklike. Predicting the future is important for two reasons; first, weneed to start thinking about what kind of future we would like forourselves and to pass on to the next generation, and then, we needto know what decisions we need to make today that will give the

best result in the future.

It might be possible in the future to experience the sandbetween your toes, feel the salt from the ocean on your lips, hearthe waves and smell the seaweed, just lying in your bed at home.But we will not be able to fool the mind in the way that no matterhow real the experience will feel, you will always know that ithasnthappened for real. That will make all the difference. You can

tell people today that you have seen the pyramids in Egypt becauseyou have seen a picture of them, but you will never get the feelingof being there. So, even if a great invention is there for anaffordable price, it will never replace the common experience if itis not genuine.


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The future has always been a topic that gave free rein to the imagination. This

time UN forecasts on how the world will look like in the year 2100 are not toooptimistic, because the Earth will no longer dispose of some of its main resources,

such as oil, natural gas or coal.

The United Nations predicted that the Earth's population will reach about 10

billion inhabitants in the year 2100, according to Business Insider. Everything

until then, 80% of the world's population will live in cities. Mega-cities, which

will have more than 20 million inhabitants, will become common. Of these, thefollowing are worth mentioning: Beijing, Delhi, Jakarta, Mexico City, Mumbai,

So Paulo and Shanghai.

Now, there are over 7,000 spoken languages, and in the future, many of them

will disappear, while English will become the most used means of communication.

Africa's population will grow from 1 billion as in 2010, up to 3.6 billion in2100. Life expectancy worldwide will reach 81 years, 68 as it is present, and

22.3% of the population will be at least 65 years old.

Resources such as oil, natural gas and coal will get close to zero. These

energy sources are going to be extinct, mostly due to the rate of consumption. The

exploitation of renewable energies (wind and solar energy in particular) will

increase and they will become major sources in 2100.


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People spend more time in their homes than in any other space. The home ideally

provides a safe, comfortable environment in which to relax, communicate, learn, and beentertained. Increasingly, it is where people connect with friends and family, conductbusiness, manage resources, learn about the world, and maintain health and autonomyas they age. People invest extraordinary amounts of time, money, and emotional energyto mold their homes into living spaces that meet their needs.

Wood feels good, smells good, can look better with age, and has a lot goingfor it from the green point of view. It is sustainable (as long as it is harvested

responsibly), healthful (it doesn't outgas toxins), and relatively durable (ifmaintained). Compared with other commonly used siding materials, it requires theleast energy to produce and involves the least total embodied energy over itslifetime. On top of that, wood potentially has the lowest environmental impact.When a house has come to the end of its useful life, the wood components maylive on in another structure the cradle-to-cradle scenario, as when oak barn beams

live on capably in a second or even a third building.If we are to believe most movies, television, and popular press articles that

mention home life in the future, we will have complete control over our spaces atthe touch of a button. In fact, our homes will be so fully automated and smartthat we will rarely have to think about everyday tasks at all. We will spend nearlyall our time in the home engaged in leisure activities because digital and roboticagents will have taken over the mundane chores of day-to-day life.


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In the future, homes and buildings will look differently, they will be

suspended, and the cars will fly and will not have wheels. The cars will

not pollute the air. The cities are going to be large, but unfortunately it

will be no more lakes and forests. The cities will be equipped withappliances which refreshes the air. There will be cities-resorts where they

will be forests, springs and lakes. The seasons will differ very little from

each other.


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Some very exciting developments are underway in the realm of

hydroponic agriculture, i.e. the growing of crops in fertilized waterwithout the use of soil. Grown in ultra clean, climate regulated

environments inside warehouses or skyscrapers, crops could be spared

both natural contamination (insects, infections etc) an d pesticides, to

make them entirely clean, even more so than organic crops. Plants could

be easily monitored for defects inside 30 story greenhouse that recycle alltheir air and water.

It would also be possible to genetically enhance fruits, vegetables and

even meat to have higher nutritional values with, for instance, less fat and

more protein, by changing the DNA makeup.
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In vitro meat, in vitro fish, in vitro fowl. Science is all over it, and

predictors say it will eventually sell for half the price of the real animal

product. In vitro meat will taste and feel entirely genuine, and farms that

raise, for instance, live stock will find profitability an elusive dream incompetition with modern sky farms. In vitro meat can be grown in urban

multistory greenhouses. 20 years from now, I see urban dwellers buying

fresh meat, fruits and vegetables from their neighborhood farm scraper, all

devoid of infections, saturated fat and chemicals.


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Molecular gastronomy (also referred to as "progressive cuisine") uses

avant-garde cooking techniques and equipment to transform flavors andpresentations. Examples include deconstructions, foams and "caviars"

composed of reductions that have been converted via calcium baths into

textural dollops with tapioca-like consistency.

People are usually reassured by the chefsproclamation. Otherwise,before savoring the fake caviar made from sodium alginates, the burning

sherbet, the artichoke foam delight in a siphon and the inverted Baked

Alaska hot inside and cold outside, to understand the beauty of the new

colloids in a complex disperse system and drink organized water, we

would have been pressured to enroll for a semester of chemistry.


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What shape the school of the future will take is amorphous, but most

educators and observers agree that the future school will go electronicwith a capital E.

Students, TheAgeasserts, will see and hear teachers on computers,with "remote learning" the trend of tomorrow. Accessing "classrooms" ontheir home computers, students will learn at times most convenient forthem. Yet some attendance at an actual school will be required to help

students develop appropriate social skills. That is why:- all teachers and students have laptop computers.

- teachers check voicemail and return students' calls on a special telephonesystem.

- students use telephones to find information or speak to experts in subjectareas they are studying.

- all lessons are multidisciplinary.- all students have individual learning plans created by teachers.

In schools, a laptop computer is the students' "library, homework, datastorage, and connection to the wider world. (Technology) has changed theemphasis to the learning of kids rather than the teaching of kids."


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21stCentury Schools recognizes the critical need for developing 21stcentury skills. However, we believe that authentic education addresses the

whole child, the whole person, and does not limit our professional

development and curriculum design to workplace readiness.

21stcentury skills learned through our curriculum, which is

interdisciplinary, integrated, project-based, and more, include and are

learned within a project-based curriculum by utilizing the seven survival

skills advocated by Tony Wagner in his book, The Global Achievement

Gap:

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Collaboration across Networks and Leading by Influence

Agility and Adaptability Initiative and Entrepreneurialism


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Effective Oral and Written Communication

Accessing and Analyzing Information

Curiosity and Imagination


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In much the same way that traveling at speeds close to the speed of light can alter the

flow of time, intense gravitational fields can have the same effect. Gravity effectively

is a warping of space-time, and therefore affects not only space, but time as well. The

result is that time passes more slowly for an observer as they enter a massive object's

gravitational well.

Astronauts, traveling on the space shuttle or International Space Station experience a

combination of these effects, though on a smaller scale. Since they are traveling quite

quickly and orbiting around Earth (a massive body with significant gravity), timeslows down for them compared to those back on Earth.


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The difference is small, much less than a second over the course of their time

in space. But it is a measurable difference nonetheless. We have seen how we

can slow the passage of time for human passengers traveling near the speed of

light and near intense gravitational wells. But these effects are small. Until we

can figure out a way to approach the speed of light (and warp drive does not

count, not that we know how to do that either at this point), or travel near

black holes (or travel toblack holes for that matter) without falling in, we

won't be able to experience time travel any significant distance into the future.


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The utopiaand its offshoot, the dystopia, are genres of literature thatexplore social and political structures. Utopian fiction is the creation of anideal society, or utopia, as the setting for a novel. Dystopian fiction is theopposite: creation of an utterly horrible or degraded society, or dystopia.Many novels combine both, often as a metaphor for the differentdirections humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of two

possible futures. Both utopias and dystopias are commonly found inscience fiction and other speculative fiction genres, and arguably are bydefinition a type of speculative fiction.

Concepts of utopia and dystopia represent imaginary societies in

which people live their life either in a perfect environment, governed bythe laws that provide happiness to everyone, or in an oppressive societythat is ruled by repressive and controlled state.

Envisioned as an alternative to the utopia, dystopia represents a visionof a fictional society that is made imperfect and flawed by the influencesof tyranny, terrorism, poverty, misery and advanced technologies.
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Utopia Dystopia

Society Equality of all people Classes, caste system

View on future Optimistic, upbeat Pessimistic, downbeat

Form of government Democracy Regime

Education Equal and advancing

education Propaganda

Economy No money, equal

distribution of goodsRich and poor people, nomiddle class

Legislation

Fair system of

punishment

Unfair and excessive

punishment

Atmosphere Happy, harmonic

familiesUnfortunate, unluckypeople

UtopiaVs. Dystopia


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Globalization is perhaps the most significant and pervasive

contemporary trend. Humanity is moving from a set of relativelyautonomous nation states to an integrated global reality, more ruled

by international corporations and organizations, and economic andecological interdependencies, than national and political ideologiesand issues. Fueled by global communication, technological

networking, expanding transportation systems, economic exchangeand competition, and the growth and spread of a global culture,globalization is seen both as a positive and as a negative trend.

When we ask for opinions about what future humans mightlook like, we typically get one of two answers. Some people trot

out the old science-fiction vision of a big-brained human with ahigh forehead and higher intellect. Others say humans are no longerevolving physicallythat technology has put an end to the brutallogic of natural selection and that evolution is now purely cultural.


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- Diamond, Jared, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail,

Cambridge University

Press, 2005, page 197-198

- Booker, M. Keith. The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature.Westport,

CT, Greenwood Press, 1994.

- Sargent, Lyman Tower, Themes in Utopian Fiction in English beforeWells.Science Fiction

Studies, Vol.10, No. 3, pt. 3 (November 1976: pp. 275-82)

- Booker, M. Keith. Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide.

Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1994.

- Moore, Alan; David Lloyd (November 2005). V for Vendetta. Vertigo. pp.Inside Cover.ISBN14012-0792-8.


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Society in Year 2020

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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games


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