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  • 1. A recent study by Oxford University estimates that nearly half of all jobs in the US are at risk from automation and computers in the next 20 years. While advancing technologies have been endangering jobs since the start of the Industrial Revolution, this time it is not just manual posts: artificial intelligence — the so-called fourth industrial revolution — promises to change the shape of professional work as well. For instance, lawtech is already proving adept at sorting and analysing legal documents far faster and more cheaply than junior lawyers can. Similarly, routine tasks in accounting are succumbing to AI at the expense of more junior staff.This change is an opportunity to create new and better jobs. Paul Drechsler, who is president of the CBI employers' organisation, is enthusiastic about the future: t6The fourth industrial revolution is the best opportunity that this country has had for decades to leapfrog” in terms of productivity and competitiveness. But he cautions that “the change is happening must faster than the education system”. The next generation will need a new set of skills to survive, let alone thrive, in an AI world. Literacy, numeracy, science and languages are all important, but they share one thing in common: computers are going to be far better than humans at processing these forms of explicit knowledge.
    The risk is that the education system will be churning out humans who are no more than second-rate computers, so if the focus of education continues to be on transferring explicit knowledge across the generations, we will be in trouble. The AI challenge is not just about educating more AI and computer experts, although that is important. It is also about building skills that AI cannot emulate. These are essential human skills such as teamwork, leadership, listening, staying positive, dealing with people and managing crises and conflict. These are all forms of tacit knowledge, not explicit knowledge. They are know-how skills, not know- what skills. Know-what is easy to transmit across the generations, and is easy to measure. Know-how skills are hard both to transmit and to measure.
    The employability skills gap is already large, and AI will only make it larger. A McKinsey survey found that 40 per cent of employers cited lack of skills to explain entry- level vacancies in their companies. Sixty per cent said that even graduates were not ready for the world of work.
  • 2. The first outline of The Ascent of Man was written in July 1969 and the last foot of film was shot in December 1972. An undertaking as large as this, though wonderfully exhilarating, is not entered lightly. It demands an unflagging intellectual and physical vigour, a total immersion, which I had to be sure that I could sustain with pleasure; for instance, I had to put off researches that I had already begun; and I ought to explain what moved me to do so.There has been a deep change in the temper of science in the last 20 years: the focus of attention has shifted from the physical to the life sciences. As a result, science is drawn more and more to the study of
    individuality. But the interested spectator is hardly aware yet how far-reaching the effect is in changing the image of man that science moulds. As a mathematician trained in physics, I too would have been unaware, had not a series of lucky chances taken me into the life sciences in middle age. I owe a debt for the good fortune that carried me into two seminal fields of science in one lifetime; and though I do not know to whom the debt is due, I conceived The Ascent of Man in gratitude to repay it.
    The invitation to me from the British Broadcasting Corporation was to present the development of science in a series of television programmes to match those of Lord Clark on Civilisation. Television is an admirable medium for exposition in several ways: powerful and immediate to the eye, able to take the spectator bodily into the places and processes that are described, and conversational enough to make him conscious that what he witnesses are not events but the actions of people. The last of these merits is to my mind the most cogent, and it weighed most with me in agreeing to cast a personal biography of ideas in the form of television essays. The point is that knowledge in general and science in particular does not consist of abstract but of man-made ideas, all the way from its beginnings to its modern and idiosyncratic models. Therefore the underlying concepts that unlock nature must be shown to arise early and in the simplest cultures of man from his basic and specific faculties. And the development of science which joins them in more and more complex conjunctions must be seen to be equally human: discoveries are made by men, not merely by minds, so that they are alive and charged with individuality. If television is not used to make these thoughts concrete, it is wasted.
  • 1. 去年11月,中国共产党召开了第十八次全国代表大会,明确了今后一个时期中国的发展蓝图,提出到2020年国内生产总值和城乡居民人均收入将在2010年的基础上翻一番,在中国共产党建党100年时全面建成小康社会,在新中国成立100年时建成富强 民主文明和谐的社会主义现代化国家。同时,我们也清醒地认识到,作为拥有13亿多人口的发展中大国,中国在发展道路上面临的风险和挑战依然会很大、很严峻,要实现己确定的奋斗目标必须付出持续的艰辛努力。实现中华民族伟大复兴,是近代以来中国人民最伟大的梦想,我们称之为“中国梦”,基本内涵是实现国家富强、民族振兴、人民幸福。中华民族历来爱好和平。近代以来,中国人民蒙受了外国侵略和内部战乱的百年苦难,深知和平的宝贵,最需要在和平环境中进行国家建设,以不断改善人民生活。……
  • 2. 梵净山被誉为贵州第一山,系武陵山脉的最高峰,位于贵州省铜仁市下辖的江口、印江、松桃三县交界处。它的最高峰凤凰山海拔2572米。站在山顶80多米高的黄金山峰上,视线绝佳:陡峭的石柱支撑着巨大的方形岩石,被称为“万卷书”。这座山以其壮丽的自然景观和亚热带生态的珍稀动植物而闻名。这座山有着丰富的生物多样性和完整性,是4394种植物和2767种动物的家园。1986年梵净山被列为首批国家级自然保护区之一,受到联合国教科文组织“人与生物圈”的保护。
    早在明朝时,这座山就是佛教圣地,长期以来它与峨眉山、五台山、普陀山、九华山齐名。游客可以饱览云雾缭绕的群山、美丽的植被、陡ill肖的悬崖、回荡的洞穴和古老的桥梁。