Brewed Fresh Daily

Is not what happens around the BFD household. While most of you wake up and ease into your day - I jump into the thick of things. After a nice, strong cup of coffee I don't leisurely sit around the house in my jammies waiting for Meet the Press to come on. I pick up Bruce Stering's Tomorrow Now. First thought - Northeast Ohio isn't ready for Bioscience. Why? [This first part parallel's what Steve Goldberg is saying]

"We are the raw material. Biotech is us, industrialized. Technology always 'improves', but the wisest path forward is a path that allows us to keep making fresh mistakes. When we're dealing with genetics, the stuff of life, we need to shy strongly away from approaches that are irreparable and can work us into a fatal corner: monocultures, monopolies, and the obliteration of alternatives."

Do you think the region is ready for that kind of flexibility? Second thought - One of the reason's the CMSD is broken is because it's a relic of a bygone era and doesn't reflect life or work. Bruce Sterling:

"'Learning' is not the center of school life. [Schools] are socializing institutions. They teach children to behave in civilized groups... No matter how clever they are, children are always kept in school till the bell rings. This teaches them to behave in large, bureaucratically organized institutions. They're also kept there in order to free up the productive time of their parents...Today's schoolchildren are held to grueling nineteenth century standards. Today's sucessful adults learn constantly, endlessly developing skills and moving from temporary phase to phase... Children are in training for stable roles in large, paternalistic bureaucracies. These enterprises no longer exist for their parents. One they were everywhere, these classic gold-watch institiutions: railroads, post offices, the old-school military, telephone, gas, and electrical utilities. Please where the competitive landscape was sluggish, where roles where well defined. The educated child became the loyal employee who could sit still, read, write, and add correctly - for thirty years.

That is nothing like what my career is shaping up like. I wonder how much easier/better a time I would have had if the education system actually prepared me for what work in the new millenium would be like? What about you? Remember when Sunday morning was watching cartoons and westerns? That too, like everything else, is a relic of a bygone day.