Why We Should Be Teaching Exponential Technologies To Our Kids?
What are exponential technologies? As the name suggests, exponential technologies are technologies that have an exponential growth rate in short periods of time, in terms of capacity and performance. Another important feature of exponential technologies is that their cost comes down every some years. Therefore, with time, their price-performance ratio reaches a point where it becomes feasible to use them for solving business problems as well as for being large-scale use or consumption. Computers are an example of last generation’s Exponential Technology that experienced doubling in advancement and lowering in costs approximately every 1.5 years. Today’s exponential technologies include- Artificial Intelligence, Game Design, Robotics, 3D Printing, Augmented & Virtual Reality, and Machine Learning.
Why are exponential technologies relevant to each of us? Exponential technologies can make a considerable difference to efficiency, speed, cost and quality of operations. They can completely transform how businesses function and goals are achieved. And therefore exponential technologies are also so disruptive, since they can make their predecessor tech become obsolete very fast once they pick up pace. For example, Drones are revolutionalizing how products are delivered. Amazon is trying to employ drones for their last-mile delivery services. Drones will be able to skip traffic, deliver to the exact, current location of the customer, and to the remotest, most hard-toreach areas. Drones are being used in military operations, replacing fighter pilots to fulfill defense missions. Another example of disruptive, exponential tech is 3D printing. 3D printing is becoming increasingly faster, efficient and cheaper, and can print using more than 750 types of materials. It might make manufacturing goods on-demand at home possible, which will thoroughly disrupt the manufacturing industry, and will make logistics and inventory management much less important. As one can tell, disrupted industries also means disrupted jobs. Anything between 50 – 80% of jobs are expected to become disrupted, due to the rise of current exponential tech, in the coming 20 years. Researches forecast that 65% of current grade schoolers will be working jobs that do not even exist in today’s time! How can we make up the most of these fast-paced times? Educating ourselves and our younger generations adequately is the answer. As Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and other exponential tech become more and more pervasive, so does the demand of their skills. And therefore, training ourselves in these areas can actually give us a huge career edge over others. Also, these technologies will continue to grow and continue to transform the world over the next several decades. Therefore by the time the younger generations grow up, not only will these technologies not be obsolete, in fact they would have become an essential baseline for most if not all careers. Just how knowledge of computers and internet use is necessary for all forms of work today, understanding of the exponential technologies of today’s time will be expected for the jobs of tomorrow. As we can see, the current school curriculums have not incorporated these future world trends. But that does not mean that we do not prepare our children for their future.
Currently, there are few organizations that are beginning to answer to this need. BeSingular is one such company that offers online classes in exponential technologies to young, school-going students globally. It offers live sessions in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Programming, Robotics, Game Design, Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, iOS App Development, and Augmented & Virtual Reality (AR/VR). Especially at a time when our planet suffers from a pandemic, online education offers a huge boon as well as an ultimate hope to all young and old learners. It also leaves us with the opportunity to look beyond the horizon, and find new, exciting and relevant skills to add to ourselves. Let us end with a beautiful and inspiring quote by the honourable, Mother Teresa“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.�
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