An interesting talk by the MD of Daimler Benz
www.linkedin.com/pulse/interesting-talk-md-daimler-benz-jonathan-brathwaite
What should grandchildren study?
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Solar power does not work in the UK in winter..
Follow this on a cloudy dull day..gridwatch.co.uk/
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>> Follow this on a cloudy dull day..gridwatch.co.uk/
Well.
Hours of entertainment there!
Why is OCGT expensive to run, but CCGT, apparently isn't?
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>> Why is OCGT expensive to run, but CCGT, apparently isn't?
I had to Google the acronyms and found this explanation:
www.araner.com/blog/combined-cycle-gas-turbines/
Suspect it's not wholly objective but does give an overview.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Sat 11 Nov 17 at 09:06
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It is pretty amazing how quickly things change and how quickly they become normal. 30 odd years ago, I was working for a UK company, but my job involved quite a lot of travel to, and regular temporary residence in Brazil. The part of the country where I spent a lot of time was a long way from the major conurbations and I was more or less "off the grid" most of the time. Telephone calls to the UK had to be booked in advance and were ludicrously expensive and unreliable. Fax machines were few and far between, there was no mobile phone network and just forget about Internet. Credit cards were not accepted in many places and cash was King. Most communication was by telex but of course that required a fair amount of effort and was limited in its usefulness. It just became normal to have to be self sufficient and get on with your work without reference to others.
Now of course, fairly much wherever you are on the planet, you are in constant contact with a head office and or other colleagues 24/7. It's good at most levels, particularly for keeping in touch with family, but it does turn most commercial things into committee decisions which, as has been apocryphally described, is how camels came to be designed when the brief was to create a new type of horse.
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Known as the long handled screwdriver RdH. Reminds me of a book I read fairly recently about the Zulu wars. The governor sent a message to London that he was going to war, by the time he'd sent it, got to London and the reply got to him a fornight had passed.
Good book btw, Zulu written by saul david.
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Interesting reading though somewhat expected.
3D printing has not yet been mainstream in spite of the hype.
With new type of working, there comes new types of problems. So, life would change but not always in a better way.
However, I sometimes do feel it is better to deal with intelligent machines than stupid humans :-)
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Picking on your comments admittedly not everyone has a 3D printer yet, but I'm not sure myself why everyone would need one so I doubt it would ever become really "mainstream" and I therefore don't think that's a measure of anything.
There's a lot of interesting projections and concepts in that document, even though the timeframes may not be right it's and insight as to how the world could go, and food for thought. I think you would find some are further down the line than you realise.
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>> food for thought. I think you would find some are further down the line than
>> you realise.
Most of the things in there are further down the line than indicated in that document. MUCH further.
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>>Most of the things in there are further down the line than indicated in that document.
>>MUCH further.
The last industrial revolution impacted manual labour with production lines, automation etc. The computer revolution seems to have had a generally positive impact in the quality of lives by increasing productivity. Yes, jobs were lost - there was a 50 strong typing pool at my first employer, now all gone but we are generally better off because of it.
Their seems to be a real focus on middle class workers for the next revolution, lawyers, doctors, accountants etc.
I know my employer has an computerised risk manager running at the moment. They are currently comparing the results to cases underwritten manually. I suspect they will compare losses, gains etc. to profit and see who wins - i.e. man or machine.
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Without particularising, different economies are at varying levels of technological development.
Sometimes the developing ones leapfrog the developed. TV and communications might be an example.
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Potential ambiguity on my part - I meant I think they are further down the line of development and closer to reality than movilogo realises. I may be wrong but just thinking back over some of my "easy reading", and following up on some of the concepts in that article, that's my thoughts.
Lots of people have their heads in the sand over technological advancement, about where it's at and the dramatic effects it will have on the world as a whole and our lives as individuals. The good thing is, the overall impact won't all be negative, by a long way. The bad thing is the individual impact could be negative.
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A very interesting article and no doubt the technological advances to come will change our lives to a massive degree.
But nearly all predictions of what the future will look like prove to be completely wrong.
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The funny thing is, most of the stuff in that article is already in existence, at least to some degree, or the technology has been proven. Not really a lot of prediction there except the "when".
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Point mostly missed, I think.
>What should grandchildren study?
It doesn't matter much. The more important question is; What will employers/investors buy?
Well, its not knowledge; That's pretty much free and available to anyone.
Its not qualification or certification; The same services are available elsewhere.
Its not technical knowledge, because who knows what tomorrow's technology is?
Of course, if you are a "worker", for want of a better term, then it will simply be employment for the current task of which you have knowledge or experience. But if that requirement changes, then so will your value and desirability. No doubt plenty available, but no security.
I'll tell you what is, and will become more, valuable;
1) the ability to understand, imagine and extrapolate . The ability to study an existing situation and see light. Not formal fact remembering, process descriptions or various certifications. But the ability to look at a situation and see your way through.
2) The desire to win. Whether it is beating the odds, beating the circumstance, or outperforming your colleague, neighbour, friend. The competitive desire to win matters.
Sadly, those are the two things NOT taught in schools today, and if members of the youth possess them, then I haven't noticed.
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The future - by the MD of Daimler Benz - madf
