From the ‘useless class’ to the ‘most valuable’ class:
Yuval Noah Harari had projected that AI will give rise to a ‘useless class’ whose current knowledge and skills will have no value and who are incapable of learning new knowledge skills that are of value: https://youtu.be/OMDlfNWM1fA?si=TYY7CcZ0bmD4lSeMThere is a recent report in support of this from the ILO ( International Labour Organisation) regarding unemployed educated Indian youth that has caught the attention of the media. https://www.livemint.com/news/india/unemployment-crisis-83-of-jobless-indians-are-youth-says-international-labour-organisation-report-11711517084127.html#:~:text=As%20per%20the%20ILO%20report,from%2035.2%20percent%20in%202000.This is one of the great paradoxes of our times. On the one hand we had hopes of reaping the ‘demographic dividend’ but here we have quite the opposite.The ILO and other similar reports indicate that about 15 to 20% of the educated are employable, and we must investigate how this happened. If the regulating agencies with their strict norms of School Boards, AICTE, UGC etc. and the NTA and entrance exams were really effective, we should have had 100% unemployment amongst educated youth, but in the spirit of Quantum tunnelling some of them are able to become employable and some even become innovators and high achievers. One major flaw with the current education system is simply not enough time is being spent in learning. A full time student is learning for about half the days of the year and for inky a few hours each day and that too, an outdated curriculum. CNR Rao. a Bharat Ratna in Science had made a statement before the President of India that 90% of our University curricula are outdated: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/education/90-indian-universities-have-outdated-curriculum-cnr-rao/articleshow/49671506.cms?from=mdrWe have moved from a foraging society, an agricultural society, the several industrial society to the era driven by the fusion of AI and Quantum ( see Navigating tomorrow: the AI- Quantum fusion era: https://datafloq.com/read/navigating-tomorrow-the-ai-quantum-fusion-era/#:~:text=The%20fusion%20of%20AI%20and,new%20epoch%20of%20computational%20intelligence.), but our education system does not prepare our youth to be future ready. And Darwin’s principles of evolution of survival of the fittest continue to prevail. Tragically enough India has both an ambitious AI mission and an ambitious Quántum mission with substantial financial commitments from the government, India has now embraced the two emerging technologies of Artificial Intelligence and Quantum in a big way. There is an AI mission with an initial commitment of 10,000 crores ( https://lnkd.in/g4shZtkW ) and a National Quantum mission with an initial commitment of Rs 6,000 crores ( https://lnkd.in/gz3RQswH ). We must have a learning mission that deploys AI to bring active personalised and lifelong learning to all Indians.
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About mmpant
Prof. M.M.Pant has a Ph.D in Computational Physics, along with a Professional Law Degree, and has been a practitioner in the fields of Law, IT enabled education and IT implementation.
Drawing upon his experience in world class international institutions and having taught in various modes of Face-to-Face, Distance Learning and Technology Enhanced Training, Prof. Pant is now exploring the nature of institutions which will be successors to the IITs, which represented the 1960s, IIMs, which represented the 1970 and Open Universities which were the rage of 1980s & 90s.
He believes that the convergence between various media and technologies would fundamentally alter the way learning would be created, packaged, and delivered to learners. His current activities are all directed toward actual implementation of these new age educational initiatives that transform education in the post Internet post WTO era..
Prof. Pant, has been a Former Pro-Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and has been on the faculty of IIT – Kanpur (the premier Engineering institution in India), MLNR Engineering College and Faculty & Visiting Professor - University of Western Ontario-Canada.
He has been visiting scientist to research centers in Italy, England, Germany & Sweden and has delivered international lectures with about 80 papers published.
During his association of almost 15 years with the IGNOU, Prof. Pant has served as the Director Computing and has been the Member of All Bodies (i.e. School boards, Academic council, Planning board, Finance committee and the Board of management).
With his interest in Law, backed with practice of Law in a High Court, and his basic training in Science and IT, Prof. Pant has been particularly interested in the Cyber Law, Patent & trade mark issues, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues etc. and has been involved with many activities, conferences on “Law & IT”
Prof. Pant is presently;
• Advisor to Media Lab Asia - Chairman of working group on ICT for Education, chairman of PRSG handling projects on ICT for education.
• Lead Consultant for an ADB funded project for ICT in Basic Education in Uzbekistan
• Member of the drafting Group for India’s National Policy on ICT in education
• Chairman of the group creating books for class 11 and 12 students on ‘Computers and Communication Technology’ appointed by the NCERT
• Preparing a ‘Theme Paper” for the NCTE in the area of ICT and Teacher Training
• Advisor and mentor to several leading Indian and Multi-national Companies in the area of education.
Prof. Pant has in the recent past been ;
• Member – Board of Management – I I T, Delhi for 6 years (two consecutive terms)
• One-man committee to create the Project Report & Legislation for Delhi IT-enabled Open University
• Advisor to the Delhi Government on Asian Network of Major Cities Project (ANMC-21) distance learning project in association with Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
• Chairman Board of Studies, All India Management Association
With his mission to create and implement new business opportunities in the area of e-learning & learning facilitation, Prof. Pant has promoted Planet EDU Pvt. Ltd., as its Founder & Chairman, along with a team of highly experienced and skilled professionals from Education & Training, Operations, IT and Finance.
