Even If We Mortgage The Next 100

One Day When I Was 8 Years Old, Everyone Was Talking In Hushed Tones About A Great Scientist That Had Just Died. His Name Was Albert Einstein.

We Need An Enduring, Robust Theory Of Education. Now, It Seems Education Careens From One Fad To Another And Often Back Again. I Think That With Better Education And Students Willing To Put In The 10,000-hours To Become Expert, We Could Develop Better Science Professionals, Even Theoretical Physicists.

As Heinz Pagels Has Said, The Challenge To Our Civilization Which Has Come From Our Knowledge Of The Cosmic Energies That Fuels The Stars, The Movement Of Light And Electrons Through Matter, The Intricate Molecular Order Which Is The Biological Basis Of Life, Must Be Met By The Creation Of A Moral And Political Order Which Will Accommodate These Forces Or We Shall Be Destroyed. It Will Try Our Deepest Resources Of Reason And Compassion.

Until Computers And Robots Make Quantum Advances, They Basically Remain Adding Machines: Capable Only Of Doing Things In Which All The Variables Are Controlled And Predictable. Robots Are Bad At Pattern Recognition And Certainly At Common Sense. That's Why Computers Can Beat Humans In Chess But Can't Have Even A Basic Conversation With A Six-year-old.

Well, Congress Gave Us A Billion Dollars To Dig The Hole, This Gigantic Hole. Bigger, Much Bigger Than The Hole In Geneva, Switzerland. Then They Canceled The Machine And Gave Us A Second Billion Dollars To Fill Up The Hole. Two Billion Dollars To Dig A Hole And Fill It Up. That Is The Wisdom Of The United States Congress And It Really Makes You Wonder: Is There Intelligent Life On The Earth? Certainly Not In The United States Congress.