Mr. Metaverse: Traditional Education Is Failing Children (The Metaverse Can Fix It)
Channel: Thinking On Paper Podcast & Book Club
Date: 01/02/2024

Disruptors and curious minds! We’re a technological species, Today’s guest is Mr Metaverse.

How can the metaverse and technology give hope to the struggling, sanctuary to the persecuted and meaning to the lost? When futurism and the metaverse merge, how can it elevate our passions, reignite our curiosity?  What does the metaverse mean for brands, manufacturing, entertainment and how will the next generations fare?

Our guest Aragorn Meulendijks, aka Mr. Metaverse, a former historian turned futurist, inspired by the likes of Clarke and Sagan. Aragorn is no stranger to turning 'crazy' ideas into reality, advocating for humanity's fusion with AI and the Metaverse.

He shares his unique perspectives on:

📼 The metamorphosis of human condition in the face of technology's relentless evolution.

📺 How history serves as a compass guiding our future. 

💾 Plato 

🎞️ The broken education system and how the metaverse can repair it.

☎️ The risks and solutions of AI elitism.

💿 The challenge of maintaining human connections in a tech-dominated world

🛼 Compassion and Empathy

👾 The metaverse 

🕹️ AI


Please enjoy the show!

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Disruptors and Curious Minds
2:04 Our Sponsors Wripple
2:49 Welcome Aragorn Meulendijks
4:24 Idealists Are The Real Realists
6:01 How History Shapes Your Future
8:26 Why Education Is Broken
11:04 How Can The Metaverse Fix Education?
18:26 Risks & Challenges - Is AI Only For The Elite?
23:37 How To Keep The Human Connection To Technology
30:07 A Message From 2045 - Looking Back
34:20 The World Between 2030 - 2040 
38:14 Star Trek Industrial Food Systems
41:02 Does More Intelligence Lead To More Compassion?
44:44 VR For Resilience & Empathy
47:09 Final Thoughts

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Quotes From The Show

“Idealists are the real realists.”

“I wasn't very good at remembering the years or the dates, but I was very
good at seeing the connections, understanding how one thing would lead to another and how it would evolve or into something else.”

“I was seeing that things that Plato said about society and democracy were being boosted or catalysed by modern technology.”

“Plato said any democracy has several stages in its life cycle, and by the end the subcultures are so far apart that they no longer have shared values, and thus no shared reality and thus they're not capable of cooperating anymore. This is exactly what we're seeing in the world today.” 

“Our Educational Systems are absolutely incapable of keeping up with the speed of change.”

“Our brains and bodies and everything we do is linear, however technology is developing along an exponential path.”

“Generation Z is struggling with all kinds of anxiety problems because they don't have a shared reality.”

“10 years from now everybody will have access to private A.I. tutors.”

“The future of education - if we allow technology -  will be able to revolutionize the way people learn. They will be able to learn at their own pace, from any educator they want and in any way that will really help them be inspired. Like I was by my history teachers.”

“Now you're sitting at home on the couch in the evening with your phone in front of you and you hear about the  Moroccan Mafia doing a raid somewhere on the other side of the planet and you're like “oh there's so much crime.” But it's not how it works. Your perception is there's more crime but that's not reality.”

“If you go online you only communicate through written text. You might think that there's video content and you can do video calls, but the truth is 99.999% of all the interactions that people have are not only not in real time, they are in written form.”


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