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What do you imagine life and society would be like?
I fear it in all honesty. Approaching my twilight years in a world where the average joe is possibly so dense that's it difficult to do anything. The Flynn Effect is already looking to have passed it's peak, from formal studies and what I observed during my school days.
Children coming into secondary school aged 11, not even knowing how to tell the time was pretty unnerving. The same children didn't have any learning difficulties but still struggled to read. They do so like I would've done aged 4! If this can be said of children in 2012, what will they be like in even only eight more years? Even during the effect's climb, it was obvious that we're less intelligent than our ancestors, though it has been more masked by greater knowledge and understanding.
So, what do you think the world will be like on October 30th, 2055?
I fear it in all honesty. Approaching my twilight years in a world where the average joe is possibly so dense that's it difficult to do anything. The Flynn Effect is already looking to have passed it's peak, from formal studies and what I observed during my school days.
Children coming into secondary school aged 11, not even knowing how to tell the time was pretty unnerving. The same children didn't have any learning difficulties but still struggled to read. They do so like I would've done aged 4! If this can be said of children in 2012, what will they be like in even only eight more years? Even during the effect's climb, it was obvious that we're less intelligent than our ancestors, though it has been more masked by greater knowledge and understanding.
So, what do you think the world will be like on October 30th, 2055?
