With the rapidly increasing population, the scarcity of resources will undoubtedly grow to be a much greater problem in the next few years. However, with the continuously decreasing levels of human capital through mechanisation, it will become much more challenging for the few remaining resources to drive the global economy. To overcome these challenges, we will have to consume all the resources for our own survival and have the future generations paying the price, or rather starve ourselves as a sacrifice for future generations to reap the benefits. The greatest task we have in this world is not just to teach people, but to fully develop their talents to the maximum, helping them to identify their passion and purpose. To understand that, you have to go back ten years, when experts laid their first brick onto the foundation of what would become the world’s greatest lethal weapon of mass destruction, artificial intelligence.
Vehicles becoming autonomous, computers beginning to think like humans, human body tissue autonomously regenerating, people will become jobless. Academic certificates will be replaced by skills and competence. General education will be completely obscured by talent development. With academic institutions pouring millions of graduates into the job markets annually, the graduates will throng the streets and pavements holding placards and chanting slogans, protesting for jobs. Farmers will lose jobs to industries as industrial affluence will be churned into edible products, while farming will be completely mechanised. Food residues will be used to produce synthetic fibre for clothing. Computer programmers will finally surrender their jobs to artificial intelligence. Most professions will be replaced by machines. Only highly competitive individuals and companies will survive the intense competition. The theme of the millennium will be, ’Survival of the Fittest’.
Doctors will not have enough apparatus to use as thermometers and ultrasonic scanners will be embedded inside wearables. Man will have embedded chipsets for real-time digital health monitoring. The eye contact lens will be replaced by microscopic circuitry. Dentistry will become the job of enzymes. No company will be commercially mass-producing clinical instruments as family doctors will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Most industries will cease to operate due to the introduction of nano-factories. Money will cease to exist in the developed communities. Bank tellers will be a thing of the past. Most academic institutions will close as toddlers learn through mixed reality. The Internet will be ubiquitous like bacteria, with connection speeds of up to several terabytes per second. Electricity will be wirelessly conducted. Education will become much more efficient as people learn involuntarily and independently from any geographical location at any given time.
Then, where will those millions of graduates go? How will they survive the man versus machines war? How do we expect to achieve SDG 10, Reduced Inequalities, when academic institutions are widening the gaps between academically brilliant and struggling students? How do we expect to reach SDG 8 when there is no one to represent the marginalised groups of innovators whose academic careers are threatened? Some of the SDGs will most likely remain theoretical.
The seeds of poverty were sown a thousand years ago when our ancestors failed to embrace the paradigm shift in talent development. Poverty does not grow from the soil, it is a legacy passed on from one generation to another in form of mindset.
Schools have become prisons where children are guillotined and tossed into the grave. They are mostly concerned with their pass rates rather than students’ future. School is the worst nightmare I ever had in my life. I told my teachers skill was the goal, but they insisted the certificate was; a disseminated traditional belief, a euphemism for failure. Our techniques for measuring academic performance are obsolete, obscuring a complete picture of how we are faring.
In phenomenology, they say, “The ‘thisness’ of the this is within the ‘thisness’ of the this, and the ‘banananess’ of the banana is within the ‘banananess’ of the banana”. It is not the colour or the taste of the banana which makes the banana what it is, it is the banananess of the banana that does, that is the taste of the banana. Likewise, the ‘millionaireness’ of a millionaire is within the ‘millionaireness’ of the millionaire. It is not the state of having a million dollars in your bank account that makes you a millionaire. Being a millionaire is a mindset. It is not the state of being a graduate engineering student that makes you an engineer. Being an engineer is a mindset. Tools do not make the artist. A certificate does not make a professional. Professionalism is not a job, it is a calling.
It is a saddening fact that the developing world produces millions of graduate doctors annually but every hour someone flies to a developed country to seek medical attention. Millions of engineers are produced but the countries have poor industrialisation levels. Millions of graduate professionals are poured out from universities, but they cannot even revive their economies. The graduates believe their degrees were the greatest investment they made, yet they cannot not change even one thing in the world. Their degrees are just ornamental and useless.
The developed world always has a few graduates as millions of students drop out of college to innovate, run businesses and venture into the entertainment industry. The developing world produces millions of these graduates who are not even capable of maintaining the current standards. Their curriculums are only based on teaching people to read and write.
According to Albert Einstein, the true value of education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learnt from the textbooks. Also, The 13 Secrets of Napoleon Hill and Unleashing Your Brilliance are two books that clearly explain human brain anatomy, relating it to productivity. Production cannot be measured by the number of graduates we produce or our school pass rates. The creation of professionals is the creation of a legacy. Like the Siamese Fighting Fish, no two are ever the same. Greatness cannot be measured. Talent development embodies the pinnacle of human achievement, for those who understand that true gravitas is a whisper, not a shout. Only when talent and passion align can the true miraculous occur.
We need to foster talent development and ensure that even the unqualified have some income generating activities to do so as to reduce poverty and antisocial activities, as well as the early childhood marriages we always speak against. Once we adhere to this maxim, everything else will follow.
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