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* The exercise will bring about questions with what question to start, try a few things / leave it open to students. Could also include things like | * The exercise will bring about questions with what question to start, try a few things / leave it open to students. Could also include things like | ||
** "for how much longer do you think humans can live on earth?" | |||
** "how would you act if you lived for a million years?" or | ** "how would you act if you lived for a million years?" or | ||
** imagine receiving a call from someone living in a million generations | ** imagine receiving a call from someone living in a million generations | ||
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* Could also result in a video montage of sequences of | * Could also result in a video montage of sequences of | ||
** short questions from different people such as | ** short questions from different people, such as (examples!) | ||
*** The sun provides energy for billions more years | *** The sun provides energy for billions more years | ||
*** Life on earth is expected to go on while the sun shines | *** Life on earth is expected to go on while the sun shines | ||
*** Knowledges make our lives easier and only knowledge allows many of us to exist at the same time. | |||
*** Imagine that what we know now is still known a million generations from now (and a lot more) | *** Imagine that what we know now is still known a million generations from now (and a lot more) | ||
*** How can we create conditions that enable knowledge to be passed along all the time that life is possible? | *** How can we create conditions that enable knowledge to be passed along all the time that life is possible? | ||
*** Save the earth? The earth will stay! | |||
**contrasted with quotes from people who doubt civilization can continue much longer on earth | **contrasted with quotes from people who doubt civilization can continue much longer on earth | ||
*** such as physicist [http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe.html Stephen Hawking] (minute 7) | *** such as physicist [http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe.html Stephen Hawking] (minute 7) | ||
Revision as of 15:11, 26 June 2009
Ideas
- Students (at schools) to interview people (e.g., senior citizens) with questions around milliongenerations to be developed. Intergenerational dialogue would add value.
- The exercise will bring about questions with what question to start, try a few things / leave it open to students. Could also include things like
- "for how much longer do you think humans can live on earth?"
- "how would you act if you lived for a million years?" or
- imagine receiving a call from someone living in a million generations
- as well as questions already posted on this site
- Preference to stick to something that conveys the change of perspective in the assumption, but no dogma. Hope that robust interview questions will emerge.
- Could also result in a video montage of sequences of
- short questions from different people, such as (examples!)
- The sun provides energy for billions more years
- Life on earth is expected to go on while the sun shines
- Knowledges make our lives easier and only knowledge allows many of us to exist at the same time.
- Imagine that what we know now is still known a million generations from now (and a lot more)
- How can we create conditions that enable knowledge to be passed along all the time that life is possible?
- Save the earth? The earth will stay!
- contrasted with quotes from people who doubt civilization can continue much longer on earth
- such as physicist Stephen Hawking (minute 7)
- transhumanists like Nick Bostrom
- and the realization that leaving the planet will mean a miserable ending for those left behind (i.e., almost everybody) and would mean that we give up a living space that can still support life for a very long time prematurely
- quotes from those who show the beauty of the planet e.g., Carl Sagan or the Home movie
- short questions from different people, such as (examples!)