Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Twitter Thread: Importance Of Science And Technology Education


There are people in this world that think that Wi-Fi and internet are the same thing. Just let that percolate for a second. Okay, moving forward, we live in an era completely dominated by technology, and that very technology continues to evolve at the kind of rapid pace that makes it pretty much impossible to keep up with. I mean, sh*t, we're looking at a future where we'll have the option to put actual computer chips in our brains thanks to Elon Musk. How about we don't go there? 

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Text - Sulka Haro @sulka I think Clarke's Third Law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" has emerged in full force during the last 10 years and its having a profound effect on the society. A thread: 11:40 PM · 31 Aug 20 · Twitter for iPhone

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Text - Sulka Haro @sulka · 15h Replying to @sulka We all carry phones that are more powerful than supercomputers not too long ago, better cameras than most film cameras most people owned etc. Internet messaging is increasingly real time. Machine learning algorithms can perform tasks that look human. 1 27 4 76 Sulka Haro @sulka · 15h Most people have no idea who all of this works and don't have the skills and knowledge to start breaking down the technologies to comprehend what's going on. This is

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Text - Sulka Haro @sulka · 15h Now that people are used to using devices that feel magic - “I know this is a device but I have no idea how this works" - the ground has become fertile for an increasing amount of beliefs about tech. Us humans want to understand things and create rationales when they're missing. 1 27 13 103 Sulka Haro @sulka · 15h We also hear about adjacent phenomena. Facebook tracks us and it's bad for privacy! Cyber criminals lurk in the internets and want to scam you! The less

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Text - Sulka Haro @sulka · 15h P Thus, utter conviction corona tracker apps must have privacy issues! Doesn't matter if actual experts say otherwise - how does one evaluate if someone is an expert if your evaluation criteria is mostly belief based? 27 5 85 Sulka Haro @sulka · 15h This is also increasingly evident at large scale. People with no expertise make decisions on governmental IT systems and believe things they hear from sellers. Anything is possible! And because the magic is so advanced,

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Text - Sulka Haro @sulka · 15h We now have magic incantations, too. “We'll conjure the spirit of Blockchain and it will solve all our problems." To people with deeper understanding of technology, many of these claims are ridiculous. But surely more advanced magic must exist, so these claims are true! 27 19 128 Sulka Haro @sulka · 15h And this is making me feel exasperated more and more frequently. Sadly, there is no fast cure. We need a deep change in the education system to pass understanding o

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Text - Sulka Haro @sulka · 15h If you can educate people around you on tech, please do. Start from the fundamentals. Everything we see is incrementally built and none of the components are complicated if you get deep enough. It's just hard to decompile complex systems, especially if... it's magic. 27 23 141

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