20/04/2018
Science has given birth to a new technology called
"robotics." Even though robotics is still in its infancy, it
is expected to play a significant role in everyday life in
the near future. Robots will be taking over many of the mundane jobs that currently require people to perform them, such as routine domestic chores, auto maintenance, and most assembly-line work. Other tasks will be done by self-programming robots that can appraise situations and use logic to adapt behavior for each set of circumstances.
Since most people will be dealing with robots in one
form or another during their lifetimes, it is important to
help everyone understand robots. The time to develop, test, and implement curriculum on robots is now and not in some "unknown" future. The unknown future may be less than five years from now.
Moreover, since robotics as a technology is in its
infancy, it is important that curriculum for the already
existing knowledge base be developed; therefore, as more advances are made, the educational system can incorporate them and not lag behind. If the educational systems were to start including robotics in the Malaysia curriculum now, it might be possible to add new innovations more easily as the kids are developed.
As computers become more advanced and inexpensive, the more complex and cheaper robots will become. With the price of computers decreasing as rapidly as it has been, robots will quickly become affordable to most people.
Almost everyone uses a computer in one form or another. Most banks have automatic tellers; grocery stores, department stores, and businesses use computers to record transactions and to inventory accounts.
Education should have helped people make the transition into a computerized society. Instead, it seems that what it has done is teach outdated concepts.
In order to eliminate the reoccurrence of this problem,
the educational system needs to start preparing the general public to make the transition into a robotic affluent society. In particular, school age children should be aware of what constitutes a true robot and understand how it works in order to adapt more easily into a "ROBOT AFFLUENT SOCIETY".
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