The crisis of the social, industrial and educational
If anything distinguishes humans from other animals is their ability to acquire, accumulate and transmit knowledge between generations.
animals, however, do not have the transmission capacity or if they do it with an undetectable level and follow the long path of evolution
Accelerating the transfer of knowledge between generations has grown in recent centuries in parallel with increased life expectancy of human beings. Clearly, then, that greater longevity has been a catalyst for our development. (Life expectancy at birth in 1900 was 34.8 years versus 78.7 years in 1998 (1).
not confuse knowledge with information and data. The speed of transmission of information and data through Internet has improved access to it. Access to libraries, bookstores, communication, and to the activity Outdated commercial Internet. But the Internet, like a book or a school providing information, not knowledge.
Knowledge is the result of experience under rationality or intuition.
When experience is based on a solid base is transformed into useful knowledge. The experience itself does not provide knowledge, only unstructured information. Experience as a means to contrast different theories and ideas generated by our brains if they are the source of knowledge.
This applies both when the results have been positive and while it has been. From the mistakes we learn. The path knowledge, continuous learning is trial and error attempts.
Knowledge is irreplaceable. Nothing can substitute. Today
companies in a bid to reduce costs, staff dispense more than 45 years. It is questionable whether this will bring benefit to the company, but obviously can destabilize knowledge. The worst part is that the younger generation to see this phenomenon, read and make the best employees do not stay in the same company for over two years. They learned quickly that employer and employee do not always share common goals. It has broken the link necessary to share a common project.
can be understood Some companies look for their survival and others prepare a "sale" with the lowest ratio apparent "cost per employee, although the package is sold adorned with the results of recent years.
But recently I read in a report released by IBM in 1500 after interviewing CEOs of major corporations worldwide, with the increasing complexity, decisions to adapt to changes are made without sufficient time to analyze them depth. You have to decide quickly despite the uncertainty. "Capitalizing on Complexity . Insights from the Global Chief Executive Officer - IBM 2010 .
With this view I wonder How reliable are their decisions?.
If entrepreneurially is therefore debatable, what is not socially questionable is that resources are wasted a significant portion of society with a high level of useful knowledge. Unlike previous generations which warranted physical fatigue retirement at 65, nothing justifies the social waste of wasting so much talent for dubious business strategies.
are idle resources, often with large capacity, which far to contribute their knowledge potential barrier was put out before the inevitable.
If the transmission of knowledge has been our best evolutionary tool for the great leap that human society has made over the last two centuries, my obvious question is, Where do we go in the future? What is the future society? Is it a sustainable model? Is not that now when we need any more knowledge?
(1) "Life expectancy in Spain during the twentieth century: The mortality tables of the National Institute of Statistics" by Francisco José Goerlich Gisbert, Rafael Pinilla Pallejà, 2006,
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