tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806502804647119766.post715140116393962216..comments2011-06-09T09:30:22.322-05:00Michael Jankehttps://profiles.google.com/100683893724446125801noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806502804647119766.post-43916161481363889712011-06-09T09:30:22.322-05:002011-06-09T09:30:22.322-05:00The heart of the matter in this topic is, in my view, a balance between learning and innovation. NPR ran a story yesterday about the inability of the Chinese education system to produce people who could do more than repeat what they&#39;ve been taught. My son attended a conference recently in which the head of South Korea&#39;s equivalent of our federal Department of Education bemoaned the inability of S. Korea&#39;s education system to produce innovative thinkers.<br /><br />So, the American model of freedom and innovation is messy but is the envy of the world for its ability to create new ideas and new solutions. <br /><br />The question is, do we have a proper balance of learning to innovation?Dick McMullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16952873857567593786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806502804647119766.post-513839685340019662011-06-06T22:05:11.757-05:002011-06-06T22:05:11.757-05:00Giovanni - I couldn&#39;t agree more. <br /><br />Justin - That&#39;s a great show, but felling trees isn&#39;t really a &#39;dirty job&#39;. I enjoyed it too much.Michael Jankehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00357905802460949707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806502804647119766.post-48289933788216600532011-06-06T09:16:51.070-05:002011-06-06T09:16:51.070-05:00What you describe is information and knowledge being lost. That&#39;s sad. Know what&#39;s worse? Information and knowledge that is readily available about the computer history and people still keep doing the same mistakes over and over.. and they think that this new &#39;thing&#39; they invented wasn&#39;t thought by anyone else before so how could they learn something from anyone?<br /><br />Tons of different programming languages, new &#39;paradigms&#39; being created to tackle such small problems that the great inventors of our area would laugh (or cry).<br /><br />IT seems to be destinated to live in a loop, wasting resources. However, it looks like we&#39;ve a lot of resources to spare.. since we seem to be improving somehow.gtirlonihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02656853040382927647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806502804647119766.post-79227514380960037792011-05-30T19:03:08.368-05:002011-05-30T19:03:08.368-05:00You might enjoy this clip of Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) giving a talk about this kind of thing:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-udsIV4HmcJustin Rovanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07607687640507954748noreply@blogger.com