#60 Why Do Your Kids Need The Metaverse? Traditional Education Is Failing Them

Disruptors and curious minds! We’re a technological species, Today’s guest is Mr Metaverse. How can the metaverse and technology give hope to the struggling, sanctuary to the persecuted and meaning to the lost? When futurism and the metaverse merge, how can it elevate our passions, reignite our curiosity? What does the metaverse mean for brands, manufacturing, entertainment and how will the next generations fare? Our guest Aragorn Meulendijks, aka Mr. Metaverse, a former historian turned futurist, inspired by the likes of Clarke and Sagan. Aragorn is no stranger to turning 'crazy' ideas into reality, advocating for humanity's fusion with AI and the Metaverse. He shares his unique perspectives on: 📼 The metamorphosis of human condition in the face of technology's relentless evolution. 📺 How history serves as a compass guiding our future. 💾 Plato 🎞️ The broken education system and how the metaverse can repair it. ☎️ The risks and solutions of AI elitism. 💿 The challenge of maintaining human connections in a tech-dominated world 🛼 Compassion and Empathy 👾 The metaverse 🕹️ AI Please enjoy the show! - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Disruptors and Curious Minds 2:04 Our Sponsors Wripple 2:49 Welcome Aragorn Meulendijks 4:24 Idealists Are The Real Realists 6:01 How History Shapes Your Future 8:26 Why Education Is Broken 11:04 How Can The Metaverse Fix Education? 18:26 Risks & Challenges - Is AI Only For The Elite? 23:37 How To Keep The Human Connection To Technology 30:07 A Message From 2045 - Looking Back 34:20 The World Between 2030 - 2040 38:14 Star Trek Industrial Food Systems 41:02 Does More Intelligence Lead To More Compassion? 44:44 VR For Resilience & Empathy 47:09 Final Thoughts - - - - -- - - - - -- Quotes From The Show “Idealists are the real realists.” “I wasn't very good at remembering the years or the dates, but I was very good at seeing the connections, understanding how one thing would lead to another and how it would evolve or into something else.” “I was seeing that things that Plato said about society and democracy were being boosted or catalysed by modern technology.” “Plato said any democracy has several stages in its life cycle, and by the end the subcultures are so far apart that they no longer have shared values, and thus no shared reality and thus they're not capable of cooperating anymore. This is exactly what we're seeing in the world today.” “Our Educational Systems are absolutely incapable of keeping up with the speed of change.” “Our brains and bodies and everything we do is linear, however technology is developing along an exponential path.” - - - - - - - - - - - - - This show is brought to you by Wripple - Marketing’s On-demand talent platform. - Get your company matched with vetted freelancers in real time. - If you’re talent, get qualified opportunities with top brands. - Now featuring AI, Web3 and blockchain talent across verticals. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jeremy is a futurist, writer, and nexus thinker working at the intersection of technology, entertainment and brand. He is the co-founder of Tunewelders and SoundObjects and creator of the Write To Know You program. Mark is a creative writer, futurist thinker and trainee Nexus thinker. He writes, researches and thinks about web3 and emerging technology for LVMH and Culture3. Links To The Show: Sign up to the book club - http://www.thinkingonpaper.xyz/bookclub Connect With Mark - https://linktr.ee/markfielding Connect With Jeremy - https://www.jeremygilbertson.com/ #futrism #emergingtechnology #metaverse #VR #AR #AI #spatialcomputing #podcast #web3