Tools for modern citizens
It has taken us by surprise, but in our current situation, when everyone has more of a voice and more impact on the public than ever before, it suddenly matters. You wouldn’t take your car to a mechanic who didn’t know how to fix a car, and citizens, each of us, should be held to at least as high a standard of knowledge.
Everyone around us needs to know about:
Statistics
Germ theory
Epidemiology
Decision making
Propaganda and the status quo
Semiotics and indoctrination
The mechanics of global weather
Network effects
and artificial intelligence
Either we are the makers of our future or we’re the victims. And if we don’t understand these fundamental components of how the world works, our actions may undermine our goals as well as the people around us.
The world is changing fast and we’re all more connected than ever before. The good news is that these are all skills, they can be learned and it’s imperative that we teach them to others.