Blog Post 8 - Unit 7 Discussion Board 1 - CS875: Futuring and Innovation - Colorado Technical University (CTU)

 Daydreaming About the Future

               This assignment focuses on dreaming about things I would like to do in the future that are centered around education. The main subjects to consider are: Education, Job or Research, Philosophy or Religion, Travel, and home-based educational goals. Not only should I be considering the dreams of the future, but I also am allowed to imagine them without resource constraints. While I somewhat try not to get too focused on future goals that are not very realistic, especially in the short term, it is imagination creativity, and dreaming that propel society. If nobody ever challenged or desired more than the status-quo, human and societal evolution would never have taken place.

               Goals, dreams, and creations may never become reality, but they can often guide people towards other life improvements. I try not to get my hopes up, but I remain a pessimistic/skeptical optimist. Some people have told me I am a realist. Sometimes I can seem like an opponent/want to debate, but it does not always mean I completely disagree with anyone one thing or idea. I like to think of it as playing the Devil’s advocate, somewhat, and consider it to potentially be a way for people to prepare for debate with those who are much less forgiving. I like to ask questions. Table one below outlines ten goals for each of the categories listed above.

 

Table 1

These are Some Things I Daydream About Doing with Unlimited Resources

Education	Job or Research	Philosophy or Religion	Travel	Home
Finish my last degree level (doctorate)	Be successful, stable, and wealthy	Help to create a more cooperative global environment to facilitate synergy and accelerate growth	I hope to own and pilot a flying domestic car/vehicle	I want to learn how to do electrical wiring to code specifications
Learn more programming	Be able to hire people long-term/delegate more work, and have some time off.	Continue searching for proof of God, religious references, and raise awareness of similarities among all	I want to travel to every country, and learn/experience direct culture	Learning how to build/do construction of a home/building to code
Create digital training programs	Find better cybersecurity solutions on a global/higher-security scale	Do more religious study	Traveling to space sounds great, but then I worry about not coming back/death	Figure out how to measure, cut, and lay carpet
Community outreach/evangelism for education	Be successful locally, nationally, and then globally in my business	Find a way to connect realism with religion so that youth/others are not disillusioned	Be invited to the White House as a result of some significant educational achievement/contribution	Build a new home security system
Attend alumni events	Be able to start a foundation for youth education, supports/scholarships/grants, and possibly some sports/extracurricular activities. Something like a Boys and Girls Club, or partnership of sorts with community agencies	Define a new regulatory philosophy in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) space	Warp Speed Travel 5+	Learn more about home, property, and income-generation from land regulations
Have dissertation published/accepted	Develop the ability to code programs for jet propulsion/binary transmission use (VSAT, as one). May require access to the Deep Space Network at some point	Monitor Anacyclosis/political philosophy cyclical evolution	Be able to use teleportation, which would be nice to help develop	Learn how to do plumbing to code
Contribute to Education by publishing, evangelizing, and participating in educational discourse	Solve more cybersecurity crimes and issues, which would add to cybersecurity solutions. Help to protect innocent, bring costs down, and deter	Present outside and alternative philosophies to those who may have issues imagining a new perspective	Learn more about challenges or potential of time travel	Understand how to manage and maximize natural minerals on property
Revolutionize the learning environment while making it accessible to all students	Create a new disruptive technology	Consider what philosophies Earth/human inhabitants of another planet may employ	Be guided through some of the most secret places on Earth to learn about rare things/understand the world better	Create a highly-advanced smart home, including custom programming
Teach part-time/adjunct	Become respected and distinguished worldwide	Contribute to education and academic philosophies that may be more effective	Travel to the center of the Earth to understand the core	Promote home management philosophies
Work for a university in some capacity (probably not teaching)	Teach people more practical/rewarding skills to supplement traditional academics	Understand how delegating many advanced industry tasks to AI may influence the need for a new workforce philosophy	Possibly travel in a simulated environment through integrated biology/Augmented Reality (AR), as if in The Matrix, to learn and train without having to really travel	Learn how to weld

 Note: Objectives listed are based in February 2025.

               Some of the goals are simple, and others are a far stretch. However, the overarching theme is that education is important. Learning, even when not in a formal program, never really stops. To achieve lofty goals, serious action has to be taken. To sit idle, while every waking moment should be appreciated as a new opportunity, can limit the progress a person/society makes. The more that is learned, the less that needs to be learned/outsourced to someone that already knows, and whom will charge a nominal fee.

               While delegation and focusing on core operations is a great way to work on the strongest abilities, innovation, growth, and profitability comes through research, development, and owned production. There are, of course, cost/benefit formulas to incorporate into the decision-making process, but it is empowering to be a creator. It puts the individual in control of the output. Sometimes, it is intimidating to start the process when the gaps are so large, but setting milestones, goals, and objectives to get to the end-goal is a much more manageable way to get there. Learning can be deep, complex, and difficult, or it can be very simple, like learning how to log into a website! Overall, I love to learn new things, triangulate current/outside knowledge, have open conversations for confirmation/debate, and so that I can rely on myself as much as possible.