Accelerating Change and Intensifying Danger Chapter 1 Thinking in a World of Accelerating Change and Intensifying Danger Name :- Ethar Al-Sinan ID:- 200800335 Learning outcome Assignment

Outline The Nature of the Post-Industrial World Order A complex World of Accelerating Change A Threatening World Change, Danger, and Complexity: Interwoven The Challenge of Becoming Critical Thinkers

The Nature of the Post-Industrial World Order New global realities are rapidly working their way into the deepest structures of our lives Economic social cultural political environmental & realities-realities with profound implication for thinking and learning, business and politics, human rights. becoming increasing complex many represent significant dangers and threats

A complex World of Accelerating Change Can we deal with incessant and accelerating change and complexity without changing our thinking, traditionally our thinking has been designed for routine, for habit. We learned how to do our job . The world in which we now live requires that we continually relearn, that we routinely rethink our decisions, and that we reevaluate the way we work and live. There are some thing we can consider it Consider a simple feature of daily life: drinking water from the tap… with the increase of pollution, the poisoning of ground water. For example, to put less money into the improvement of water quality at increased risks to human health. consider the quiet revolution that is taking place in global communications.

A Threatening World A world in which we can no longer expect the knowledge or data we will need on the job, because we can no longer predict the kinds of jobs we will be doing. A world in which powerful technologies are interfaced with simplistic thinking about complex issues:” get tough on crime!” “ three strikes and you're out!” “adult crime, adult time!” A world in which national mass media gain more and more power over the minds of people. A world in which self-serving ideologies are advanced in expensive media campaigns. A world in which both freedom and safety are increasingly diminished for greater and greater numbers of people.

Change, Danger, and Complexity: Interwoven Consider the problem of solid waste management consider the issues of depletion of the ozone layer, world hunger, over-population, and AIDS consider the problem of terrorism and its link to the problem of ever-diminishing freedom.

The Challenge of Becoming Critical Thinkers The question of how to survive in the world is a question that continually transforms itself accelerating change increasing complexity intensifying danger sound From question we can see that:- Through it, we can understand the long-term nature of intellectual development, social change, and personal growth and transformation. Through it, we can grasp the need for regular exercise of disciplined thinking. Through it, we can grasp the need for regularly re-exercise the extent of our ignorance. Through it, we can appreciate the intellectual work required to change our thinking in foundational ways.

Conclusion The world is quickly changing. There are many complex world and we can accelerating change. There are many different threatening world. The relationship between change, danger, and complexity. The effect of question to challenge of becoming critical thinkers.