I think a big issue is that some people aren't even aware of the problems that the world faces. If they don't know, they won't act to change it. I think we all should try to start conversations with our peers about this type of stuff and help gain awareness
I like the part of the video when you say that there's still hope for us because of the fact that it's our communication what has brought us together, rather than something "Mandatory" or an obligation. I think you're contributing a lot to create a better civilization by making these type of videos, which I find very helpful and interesting by the way. Nice job!
Javier Sosa Well it's a privilege to have you part of the community! That's some dedication right there, watching all my videos! ;) I hope to see you around as new videos come out! Take care.
Really enjoy your videos. A lot of what you have to say is so incredibly relevant to more people than even you may think. Thanks so much for your contribution to education. You motivated me!
Bad thing we, humans, acquire knowledge much faster than wisdom. This might be the main cause of our self-extinction. However if we manage to extend out from our Sol. System, we're probably fine. But i think it's too optimistic to think so :/ I've recently read a book "The Singularity is near" by Ray Kurzweil. Basically it's about how if we manage to create conscious robots, in 100 years, our hybrid-civilization will extend throughout the galaxy! Who knows? (If they don't see us as a threat) Anyways glad to see you back, Dale!
+Top5Quantum The hardest part about all of this is the unbelievably massive amounts of different directions we as a society could go. One successful Technology could completely reshape the direction we would've gone if something else was made instead. In the context of artificial intelligence, it's going to be difficult. Robots are not scary, robots that think on their own it Is a little worrisome, robots who are program to have the ends justify the means and potentially coupled with a superiority complex are extremely terrifying... I don't know where we will go, but a tremendous amount of precautions need to be established. Backup plans, for backup plans, for backup plans. Glad to be back, hope you are well!
I was so happy to hear how much you talked about education. I genuinely do not understand how there are people in the world how do not want to learn. Learning new things is fun and practical and an education is one of, in my opinion, the most important things in life because it is the only thing that cannot be taken away from someone. And, with the internet and thousands of UA-cam channels similar to Dale's like Vsauce and Veritasium and TedEx and AsapScience, just to name a few, learning is fun and knowledge is so accessible! In this era, there is literally no excuse not to be educated. People tend to underestimate the generation of people born with computers and iPhones and the internet being readily available but I can honestly say that if it were not for the internet, and mostly UA-cam, I would be far less educated than I am. I'm sorry I feel so passionately about this topic it irks me so much when people are apathetic to learning.
I read that another problem that could hinder globalization is that interdependence makes nations vulnerable. For example, because our economies are so dependent on one another, one country (or an entire coalition of countries) has the power to weaken another country by imposing sanctions on them. And this could make countries want to be less dependent on one another. It's hard to see how we can overcome power struggles and people who will take advantage of others' dependency. Nine billion different people of all categories (sex, nationality, religion, etc.) will have to learn to trust one another. Like you said, it will be difficult. But with communication and education, I also believe that sometime in the future we will be able to progress to a Type 1 civilization. I really like your videos Dale. They are really interesting and make you think. And I can tell you're really passionate about your topics, which is super and important and awesome!
I think your analysis of English as the Type I language hinges on the fact that it stays static and a unitary language, which is highly unlikely. People have been saying for decades that TV, radio, and now the internet will stop language evolution in its tracks. However analysis of dialects show that's not the case. English dialects are still diverging. And within a few centuries, it will likely be broken up into a series of daughter languages. There may be a contrived standard dialect that is used as international and general Type I communication, but it's not likely to be identical to modern English and it probably won't be an everyday language.
I love re watching this video. I think it's my favourite of yours. Please make another video soon. Even if it's just to check in and let us know how you are. xx
Perfect video, so much said in twelve minutes. I agree education is especially important and I also see an opportunity for unite philosophy to rise. I think that in this world of money and lack of time, we forget to stop and think critically about things that are actually important. For example that our generation and generation after us are deciding the future of human kind and we will truly either make it, or break it. Great to see more and more people understanding and sharing.
The most important issue to me is the leadership. Humanity is a large ship and it takes a long time to move which is why we need near perfect leadership at the helm.
Liked and favorited. Incredible video man, keep it up! I think everyone should get a chance to watch this video. It's very important that we unite as a whole and work towards a common goal. I think this is the only way for our species to survive
+sean brennan I am happy to hear! There're quite a number speed bumps in the way of us all working together, but I hope to be able to cover a lot of them in the future! :) Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment, and I hope to see you around!
I think these are some of the most important things we must do. Moving away from consumerism and toward sustainability. Economies that that are less profit driven and more driven to address the health and well-being of everyone in them. And political systems that, instead of all effort going into perpetuating themselves or their ideologies or their next few years in power, are seeking to be forward-looking and do the right thing for the future of all of us. But, the most important thing of all is change at the individual level.
I think that one of our biggest issues that we face is wealth inequality. The divide between the "haves" and the "have nots" is growing every day the more of the money is being concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. I've watched CGP Grey's video "Humans need not apply" and I agree that we need to make sure that everyone's basic needs are met (ie food, water, shelter, medical care, etc) and are not dependent upon their ability to find and keep a job(not that I am against work, it's just that with more and more processes becoming automated, there will be fewer and fewer jobs to go around for an increasing population of our planet). I believe we can blame wealth inequality, and the quest for money for most of the problems that we need to find solutions for today. We could easily feed the entire planet if money were not involved but there are people who die from not having enough of the right foods to eat because of money, and it's really everybody's fault and nobody's fault. We are slaves to the system as it stands right now, but if we could stand united we could easily beat the system and establish a new one that is fair for everyone, everywhere.
+NobodyNowhereKnowhow yes, but coming from ex communist country- which means my country was occupied by them. I can say taking from rich and giving to poor will not work too. Why you think Soviet Union fall- because it was from the start impossible project. Look North- Korea.
+mrsmerily the matter of problem is that these days, humans desire more and want more,not just materially, of course the way of the hedonist started to crawl its way to human lives, and that's pretty saddening, we really fucked up ourselves today man
Easy fix. We don't need this many people. Our population should stop growing!!!! It should be cut in half at least! And it SHOULD depend on if you want to work! If you're not willing to work for your goals, you do not deserve to live, breathe, drink or eat! Hard work always pays off!! Only weak people say something like you.
Hey bro, great video. In my opinion, the most important issue to adress is shifting power. We are heading to a society of market, not societies with market. There is no valid argument to justify the ever growing free interchange of goods, but at the same time more and more restrictions are put to people to move from place to place. Its cynical how a qatari is able to go to London and be welcomed by everyone and a Syrian has to wait months or even years in a refugee camp to escape terror. This is pure supremacy of capital over human interests. The problem with this is that the leading countries, those who are actually pushing forward civilization, depend heavily in a capitalist economy to continue innovating. But if we dont change the main focus, the inequality and economic barriers for humans that this brings, will end up causing enough social unrest to destry us.
+Ideally Jekyl Oh goodness no. I have no plans of quitting UA-cam anytime soon. I just got caught up with quite a bit of difficult schoolwork and had to dedicate time to it. Thanks for sticking around!
In my opinion we need to first focus on: population, education, green energy, climate change, medical development, the metric (length) and gram (weight) system (so the information makes sense all over the world). After that we focus on: safety, economy, space travel/technology, materials, the rainforests, air quality, water, democracy.
This video is awesome! I totally agree with you and see these things in the same way as you, also education is very very important! Thank you for making these videos, and keep it up :)
Answer to the question; I personally believe that Identity politics and regressive activists who work to segregate humanity instead of bringing it together are a major hurdle in our advancement into a type one civilization.
Great video ! As for what i think what will truly help humanity, is to get rid of the current unsound money system. Unsound money makes that, for example, we are wasteful (would you throw away your stuff if it was paid with gold? Would you throw bombs that were paid with gold?) Now gold is a bit outdated, therefore i urge everyone to start looking into bitcoin (and variants of it).
The most important element is STEM. The more we teach this in schools rather then the model that public schools run on currently the better off we would be. That being said I have a question for you Dale. What is it you are going to school for?
I think we will fail. Even thow we have made great strides I think a Fallout style timeline will eventually happen. We are resource hungry and often rely on war to get things we want and our technology only really advances because of war. It only takes one event to trigger a nuclear war and we have come close many times.
+TroopperFoFo I think the fact that we haven't destroyed ourselves speak tremendously for itself. If anything weapons of mass distraction has prevented a lot of war, but at the same time it is not acceptable for countries like North Korea to have them. And China should know better... The problem is the fight to be the best has made us inconsiderate towards each other. And that needs to stop.
Education is the key. Virtually all threat the world suffers comes from ignorance. We need to make scientific knowledge spread, that's the only hope we have as species, I think.
+Carlos Cobian Hey, thank you for giving me a chance and sticking around! I study Anthropology, and most of my videos play off of it is some respect! I love it, and to my knowledge there are not a lot of other sizable Anthropological UA-camrs so it's kind of neat being apart of something new!
+Think Fact Now that you mention it, I could imagine your major by the humanistic and social touch on your videos, really deep. Well, I want to specially thank you for this video because I found if inspirational. As an engineer, with the wild dream of make something big, I felt that I (and everyone) should do something to contribute the build of a better society and prepared to advance in this journey across the universe.
Carlos Cobian We need optimism, we need people being accountable for themselves, and people willing to make a better world. If anything, I like to weed through all of the pessimism and "darkness" to find the good in the world. And a push for that! Engineers have always played a massive part in the progression of humanity, and we need more people thinking like you! I always like to leave people with this quote, it's one of my favorites and it's from an old Native American song: "We don't inherit the world from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." Take care, hope to see you around more, and have a good one! :)
I think the problem with "multi-culturalism" is that people mistake culture with morality. Some cultures do have moral aspects that don't work with multi-culturalism and it is important to carve them out. It's important that the people pushing for multi-culturalism point it out and *publicly* disapprove of those. Look at my country Sweden for example. There're huge shism forming with great backlash coming just because the people pushing for multi-culturalism behaved stupidly: not tolerating criticism of certain aspects of other religions etc. They even went so far as giving an islamist a minister post. ^^ They would consider my post racist ^^
We need to get rid of 2 things to live in peace. 1. Duality. This "Us vs Them" Mentality. 2. Our Primal "Alpha Dog" Mentality. Every other problem we face as a Society will diminish by solving these 2 things.
The most important element we as humans need to get over? Our instincts. They are much more active on/in us then anyone person can introspectively realize at any given moment. We currently have governments and economy that reinforce them daily. To remove those would require a massive everyone or nothing approach as humans short that of it would be massive strife.
Most important elements or aspects of humanity to tackle: keyboard warriors. Actually I don't know if they count elements or aspects. I just think we should tackle them.
tbh, i doubt we will get to type 1, most likely gonna wipe it self out, sad, but i think thats more likely for a messed up situation we are going into in the future
The single most important thing is good basic education that includes science even if it's science that is politically inconvenient - you can choose ideas, but you can never choose facts. Also free higher education for any who wish to continue learning, not necessarily for jobs, but because it raises the consciousness of populations, it satisfies curiosity, and when you learn what you want to learn, without pressure, it's life enhancing and fun.
Education because it even in first world country's ( I live in Wales a country in the uk ) you don't get taught stuff that you should know For example programming in my mind should be a skill that should be taught as importantly as a second language and the art of code is so important for children now 30 years ago know one would predict how main stream the Internet is even though how big it was at the time and I think that in 20-30 years I think code will be taught over a second language in schools all over the world and also there should be one universal language taught from elementary up even if say France teaches French in there schools but the should priority English just as much. Ps the main thing wrong with modern day society is that the rich get better education and other vital services than the poor
+Cai Jones Absolutely, even countries in the west don't learn some key things! Especially personal financing!!! Holy smokes, I know how to calculate the percentage of how many watermelon one would need for X amount of people for X amount of money... But I don't know how to do my own taxes... Priorities. With that you bring up a lot of good points, thank you for sharing!
Personally I believe humanity will never unite as one. We are simply far too diversed as a species, driven by basic instincts and needs which in turn leads to greed, hunger for power and self destruction seeing where the world is heading right now. Luckily there are few of those who can see further but I believe there simply is not enough time and effort.
I think you're getting a bit ahead of things. type 0 civilization has existed for several thousand years. There have been ups and downs, but we progress. We don't need to fix this tomorrow. It will suck for a lot of people, but it has for several thousand years. If we rush things we'll just get more push back. We need to communicate and understand our similarities and differences. We aren't a singular society. We are many varied societies. What works for America may not work for everyone, and we mustn't force our ideals on them. We have the means now to talk and listen globally, and slowly we will work toward a common society, but it will take more than the 100 years estimated.
+fabian liebregts Well, my recent hiatus was due to me having to invest quite a bit of time into it. Worked out, but was difficult. I love it though! It's really helped me grasp how to breakdown logic and the situation, something anthropology (my major) emphasizes on. I have found a lot of what I've gain from it to be extremely useful for what I do here!
Trump and Brexit have made some pretty big dents on the globalization trend. Unfortunately I feel like they can be fatal and push us back 60 years back at best at worst perhaps 200 years.
Education, I always said it was education. Imagine if the whole population was educated. There will be no third world countries, there will be no wars, conflicts, racism, sexism, acts against religions, terrorism. The whole world would be put into one mind set, with different opinions, and principles.
+Wecu Snow I don't think education alone is enough. In fact only pushing education but not careing about "concrete" problems like hunger, environment, poverty, dictatorships etc. can be quite dangerous as people tend to learn mostly things they consider "interesting", so if they get educated about freedom of speech, equality... but don't get a perspective for their life (or the life of their children) they might start rebellions which might (in the worst case) end in endless wars... I agree with you: Education _is_ an important point, but we need to overcome "concrete" problems simultaneously. Also education (as it is now) doesn't stop you from being selfish. You may know about world poverty, you may know about thinking, you may know about technology, but as long as you don't have _empathy_ with other people, you will still be the selfish asshole you were before being "educated". What we need is not only education in our brains but also education in our "hearts" (Sounding pathetic...). But I guess, this will never happen. And a third point (not anymore related to the previous): Why do we need to evolve to a Type 1 civilization which can use more energy? Why can't we just try to adapt to our environment perfectly and try to be able to work with the resources we have, getting a Type i (mathematician in myself ;) ) society, which breaks the circle of growth and getting bigger, and living happily many years in the paradise we will almost have destroyed in 2016? (Also "English" as "world language" is a little Anglocentric. The English spoken on the Internet is not everyday English but a language with many dialects and different influences; it is not English as in Britain or America, let's call it Inglish instead) Footnote: If we get to a Type 1 civilization, it would be good to still have different languages and cultures in order to prevent exchange and innovation from happening because there are no differences anymore. (Also people living in the desert have other problems than people living on the north pole). Perhaps "extreme" federalism is a very European (especially German) way of solving problems, but it seems to be the only way to connect people with one another by simultaneously keeping their connection tight enough (and it keeps individuality) In fact, as +Think Fact mentioned, we have some structures like the European Union consisting of 28 countries of which some are divided into states (in Germany that's 16 "Länder") of which some are divided into regions (e.g. Bavarias "Regierungsbezirke") etc. If we structured the world in a federal way, we could probably get closer to each other, solving problems on the lowest possible layer. This might make it difficult to get changes from top to bottom or vice versa, but it could prevent big conflicts (and an evil world-dictatorship) from happening.
+Wecu Snow Not just learning, but learning how to learn, how to unlearn, and like the video implies at the end, learning how to learn what you didn't know that you didn't know. In many ways, there wouldn't be as many different opinions about everything, there would be no real religion at all, and there would be little conflict except who gets to do what first.
Radioactive Snake I know. Even the Nazis had education, it was just highly regulated by a socialist state. A variety in education creates competition on a local, national, and international level. So with that being said, education isn't the magical cure to all of the world's problems. These socialists don't seem to understand that.
You won't believe how many religious young people in my Asian country would easily say that your video "is a dead giveaway of the devil's old trick/tool of evil etc etc..." I think education is important, but not just for the curriculum and standardized tests. But for its power to introduce various knowledge about options every person has. To help every single person realizes that they have the chance to learn about themselves and their potential, and finally what they can do to aid the colony.
B0bb217 As soon as I can. I have been wanting to get it done for over a month now and it's been really hard to balance everything out. I hope before Sunday! I am really sorry for all of this. haha
I think the most important thing humanity needs to tackle in order to unite is perspective. If all people were the same, we'd already be united, but that isn't the case. The second best thing is for everyone to be educated in a global perspective. What I mean in global perspective is a perspective where we view humanity as a whole and let go of our exclusive cultural, religious, or ideological divisions. This allows us to sympathise with any human being. To do this, people need to be exposed to multiple perspectives. I grew up in a very conservative country but moved to a liberal western country. This allowed me to adopt both cultures but also made me critical of both at the same time. But as a result, I grew to appreciate different perspectives and understand people no matter their background. I understand that differences exist and always try to view a problem from many different perspectives other than mine. A willingness to adopt and abondon perspectives and understand each other globally is what humanity needs.
Awesome video, Dale. I had heard of the kardashev scale but I never thought to apply it to culture...you make a really good point about how "internet culture" could also be accurately described as global culture. Humanity's frontier is a really cool idea. Also, noticed the abstergo logo ;)
+Infohub that would be brilliant videos proper get me thinking everyone on UA-cam seems to bring out same videos about the same stuff but this is very original and he's facts are spot on haven't got a bad word to say about him
+the riddle I appreciate that, thank you! I do plan on trying to upload more often. Recently I got extremely busy with schoolwork but if I can I'd like to jump back into uploading a video every other week. I hope to see you around! :)
be an atheist that constantly seek to expand your learning /knowledge and be a peaceful pacifist, don't be patriotic to any nation and we eventually be there into civilization type one, or be there even faster..
Vsauce and ThinkFact(of what I have seen so far from ThinkFact, which are 3 videos the latest one, Micheal Stevens facts and this one) are my kind of channels. If these channels keeps it up, they might be responsible for a more critically thinking younger population. What really irks me is that I won't be around to see humanity finally transcend into the Type: 1 civilization. As important this generation is I just want to know that we made it, all I care about is that we MUST make it. The Biggest Problem? Terrorism. Terrorism is really the biggest problem humanity is facing. We could easily reduce a considerable amount of time we would need take to reach the "Type 1" if terrorism wasn't an issue. Education is about the only thing that would make people aware of the bigger picture and not to mention people who are educated but still don't care *need* to read, watch and breath this kind of information. I hope we reach type 1 very soon(atleast in my life time). Lets work towards the bigger picture, It isn't gonna be easy but it will be worthwhile. *SUBBED*
Thank you and I am happy to hear! It is really hard to get an accurate idea over what will happen, but I feel it's important to be proactive and optimistic! Thank you for the comment and I hope to see you around!
realrunner2000 Terrorism's definition is "The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims". So take that as you want. Violence by radicalized groups or organised violence by politicians is terrorism.
A significant barrier is the common person's inability to argue. Arguing is not about being angry or being the most intimidating; when done well, arguing is more akin to brainstorming. Maybe it gets intense, but it's a heat a that refines the quality of ideas like a crucible instead of a heat that burns everyone involved. People not knowing how to argue is what has pulled people apart and what will continue to interfere with people willingly working together. There will always be opposing world views, and when they collide civil conversation can't be expected to prevail; humans are far too passionate to express their worldview without emotion. This is why we all need to learn how to productively argue.
How do you define proper arguing? Avoiding logical fallacies, being civil and understanding towards other people's opinion? After you have a definition you also need to learn and practice; in what context would that be done?
+TheJaredtheJaredlong couldn't agree more. the problem is very common here in SEA, the place i am born in. people here still holding their traditional belief strongly. especially in chinese community, one of their traditional teaching is to avoid argument (to archive "peace").
+Deriak27Forever I think one basic for proper arguing is to be critical not just to the opposing side, but to your own arguments. But that's just one piece of a giant puzzle.
That Potato With Big Dreams And bees are like, nearing extinction. Plus they don't really eff with anybody. I've walked through upwards of like, twenty bees and hadn't had a thing happen to me.
Yeah probably, considering they could wipe out humans or cause them to flourish millions of years earlier, they could really do just about anything physically possible using time travel. And that's why I'm glad they don't exist, because one douchebag could destroy all of humanity.
I suppose the most important issue for me is overcoming religious and cultural barriers. It blocks ways of communication before it even starts, and seeing how we need communication in order to become a Type 1 Civilization, this is vital for advancing our civilization.
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I think a big issue is that some people aren't even aware of the problems that the world faces. If they don't know, they won't act to change it. I think we all should try to start conversations with our peers about this type of stuff and help gain awareness
I like the part of the video when you say that there's still hope for us because of the fact that it's our communication what has brought us together, rather than something "Mandatory" or an obligation. I think you're contributing a lot to create a better civilization by making these type of videos, which I find very helpful and interesting by the way. Nice job!
This spoke to me. Thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to watch!
your going to blow up in youtube soon
+Javier Sosa
Fingers crossed! ;)
+Think Fact holy shit ive been watching u for two days and already watched all your vids i realy do love u
Javier Sosa
Well it's a privilege to have you part of the community! That's some dedication right there, watching all my videos! ;) I hope to see you around as new videos come out! Take care.
+Think Fact take care you made my week
Javier Sosa No dude, you made mine! Catch you later.
This is something I have been thinking about for a long time and more people should watch your channel or this video at least! Keep up the good work
Really enjoy your videos. A lot of what you have to say is so incredibly relevant to more people than even you may think. Thanks so much for your contribution to education. You motivated me!
Bad thing we, humans, acquire knowledge much faster than wisdom. This might be the main cause of our self-extinction. However if we manage to extend out from our Sol. System, we're probably fine. But i think it's too optimistic to think so :/
I've recently read a book "The Singularity is near" by Ray Kurzweil. Basically it's about how if we manage to create conscious robots, in 100 years, our hybrid-civilization will extend throughout the galaxy! Who knows? (If they don't see us as a threat)
Anyways glad to see you back, Dale!
+Top5Quantum
The hardest part about all of this is the unbelievably massive amounts of different directions we as a society could go. One successful Technology could completely reshape the direction we would've gone if something else was made instead. In the context of artificial intelligence, it's going to be difficult. Robots are not scary, robots that think on their own it Is a little worrisome, robots who are program to have the ends justify the means and potentially coupled with a superiority complex are extremely terrifying...
I don't know where we will go, but a tremendous amount of precautions need to be established. Backup plans, for backup plans, for backup plans.
Glad to be back, hope you are well!
I was so happy to hear how much you talked about education. I genuinely do not understand how there are people in the world how do not want to learn. Learning new things is fun and practical and an education is one of, in my opinion, the most important things in life because it is the only thing that cannot be taken away from someone. And, with the internet and thousands of UA-cam channels similar to Dale's like Vsauce and Veritasium and TedEx and AsapScience, just to name a few, learning is fun and knowledge is so accessible! In this era, there is literally no excuse not to be educated. People tend to underestimate the generation of people born with computers and iPhones and the internet being readily available but I can honestly say that if it were not for the internet, and mostly UA-cam, I would be far less educated than I am. I'm sorry I feel so passionately about this topic it irks me so much when people are apathetic to learning.
I read that another problem that could hinder globalization is that interdependence makes nations vulnerable. For example, because our economies are so dependent on one another, one country (or an entire coalition of countries) has the power to weaken another country by imposing sanctions on them. And this could make countries want to be less dependent on one another.
It's hard to see how we can overcome power struggles and people who will take advantage of others' dependency. Nine billion different people of all categories (sex, nationality, religion, etc.) will have to learn to trust one another. Like you said, it will be difficult. But with communication and education, I also believe that sometime in the future we will be able to progress to a Type 1 civilization.
I really like your videos Dale. They are really interesting and make you think. And I can tell you're really passionate about your topics, which is super and important and awesome!
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I really enjoyed this video, very thought-provoking as always
These three go together for me: Climate Change, TRUE Freedom and a global uniting.
I think your analysis of English as the Type I language hinges on the fact that it stays static and a unitary language, which is highly unlikely. People have been saying for decades that TV, radio, and now the internet will stop language evolution in its tracks. However analysis of dialects show that's not the case. English dialects are still diverging. And within a few centuries, it will likely be broken up into a series of daughter languages.
There may be a contrived standard dialect that is used as international and general Type I communication, but it's not likely to be identical to modern English and it probably won't be an everyday language.
I love re watching this video. I think it's my favourite of yours.
Please make another video soon. Even if it's just to check in and let us know how you are.
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Perfect video, so much said in twelve minutes. I agree education is especially important and I also see an opportunity for unite philosophy to rise. I think that in this world of money and lack of time, we forget to stop and think critically about things that are actually important. For example that our generation and generation after us are deciding the future of human kind and we will truly either make it, or break it. Great to see more and more people understanding and sharing.
The most important issue to me is the leadership. Humanity is a large ship and it takes a long time to move which is why we need near perfect leadership at the helm.
Liked and favorited. Incredible video man, keep it up! I think everyone should get a chance to watch this video. It's very important that we unite as a whole and work towards a common goal. I think this is the only way for our species to survive
+sean brennan
I am happy to hear! There're quite a number speed bumps in the way of us all working together, but I hope to be able to cover a lot of them in the future! :)
Thanks for taking the time to leave me a comment, and I hope to see you around!
Love the video Mate.
almost to 100,000 subscribers! congratulations.
+Docktor Rock
Thanks, and I'll see you when we get there!
I think these are some of the most important things we must do. Moving away from consumerism and toward sustainability. Economies that that are less profit driven and more driven to address the health and well-being of everyone in them. And political systems that, instead of all effort going into perpetuating themselves or their ideologies or their next few years in power, are seeking to be forward-looking and do the right thing for the future of all of us.
But, the most important thing of all is change at the individual level.
Hardcore video. Thanks. Gladly subscribing.
Very interesting and informative video as always, dale!
+Dan Sobkowiak
I appreciate it, thank you for taking the time to watch!
I think that one of our biggest issues that we face is wealth inequality. The divide between the "haves" and the "have nots" is growing every day the more of the money is being concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. I've watched CGP Grey's video "Humans need not apply" and I agree that we need to make sure that everyone's basic needs are met (ie food, water, shelter, medical care, etc) and are not dependent upon their ability to find and keep a job(not that I am against work, it's just that with more and more processes becoming automated, there will be fewer and fewer jobs to go around for an increasing population of our planet). I believe we can blame wealth inequality, and the quest for money for most of the problems that we need to find solutions for today. We could easily feed the entire planet if money were not involved but there are people who die from not having enough of the right foods to eat because of money, and it's really everybody's fault and nobody's fault. We are slaves to the system as it stands right now, but if we could stand united we could easily beat the system and establish a new one that is fair for everyone, everywhere.
+NobodyNowhereKnowhow yes, but coming from ex communist country- which means my country was occupied by them. I can say taking from rich and giving to poor will not work too. Why you think Soviet Union fall- because it was from the start impossible project. Look North- Korea.
+mrsmerily the matter of problem is that these days, humans desire more and want more,not just materially, of course the way of the hedonist started to crawl its way to human lives, and that's pretty saddening, we really fucked up ourselves today man
Easy fix. We don't need this many people. Our population should stop growing!!!!
It should be cut in half at least!
And it SHOULD depend on if you want to work! If you're not willing to work for your goals, you do not deserve to live, breathe, drink or eat! Hard work always pays off!!
Only weak people say something like you.
sl1dertheone tell that to the third world countries where the population sadly still increasing
+Ide v
Someone understands!!!
Seriously thank you
ThinkFact videos must be shared!
Hey bro, great video. In my opinion, the most important issue to adress is shifting power. We are heading to a society of market, not societies with market. There is no valid argument to justify the ever growing free interchange of goods, but at the same time more and more restrictions are put to people to move from place to place. Its cynical how a qatari is able to go to London and be welcomed by everyone and a Syrian has to wait months or even years in a refugee camp to escape terror. This is pure supremacy of capital over human interests. The problem with this is that the leading countries, those who are actually pushing forward civilization, depend heavily in a capitalist economy to continue innovating. But if we dont change the main focus, the inequality and economic barriers for humans that this brings, will end up causing enough social unrest to destry us.
You haven't given up? Cool.
+Ideally Jekyl
Oh goodness no. I have no plans of quitting UA-cam anytime soon. I just got caught up with quite a bit of difficult schoolwork and had to dedicate time to it. Thanks for sticking around!
you have improved quite a lot
nice video and DFTBA!
What?
Don't Forget To Be Awesome.
First Storm And Last Ah, I see.
Dale for President 2036
Thank-you for all your hard work.
“Giving weapons to dangerous and inconsiderate people.” lol The understatement is awesome.
I always end up watching your videos between 1 to 4 am. I need to fix my sleep schedule.
1st Education (An new modal that would take parts from public, private and online/software and homeschool)
2nd Energy
+M Gall
Definitely good goals!
Greatest video I watch from you, keep it up!
+Youri R-V
Thank you, I'm happy to hear!
YOUR BACK!
Love this! Keep it UP!
In my opinion we need to first focus on: population, education, green energy, climate change, medical development, the metric (length) and gram (weight) system (so the information makes sense all over the world).
After that we focus on: safety, economy, space travel/technology, materials, the rainforests, air quality, water, democracy.
This video is awesome! I totally agree with you and see these things in the same way as you, also education is very very important! Thank you for making these videos, and keep it up :)
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world"
-Nelson Mandela
+Thingonometry -
Beautifully said.
Upload more please, I love these videos :)
Answer to the question; I personally believe that Identity politics and regressive activists who work to segregate humanity instead of bringing it together are a major hurdle in our advancement into a type one civilization.
Great video!
Great video ! As for what i think what will truly help humanity, is to get rid of the current unsound money system. Unsound money makes that, for example, we are wasteful (would you throw away your stuff if it was paid with gold? Would you throw bombs that were paid with gold?) Now gold is a bit outdated, therefore i urge everyone to start looking into bitcoin (and variants of it).
Well said! thanks for the effort
all we need is one nation to take over the whole world
USA!
please don't ...
Yes please!
No, I don't think that's what this video was trying to say...
The most important element is STEM. The more we teach this in schools rather then the model that public schools run on currently the better off we would be. That being said I have a question for you Dale. What is it you are going to school for?
There is a video I thought you might like think fact The video it's called hidden human movie nwosatire
I think we will fail. Even thow we have made great strides I think a Fallout style timeline will eventually happen. We are resource hungry and often rely on war to get things we want and our technology only really advances because of war. It only takes one event to trigger a nuclear war and we have come close many times.
I agree the world is its f***** and we got the wrong people in charge of it bunch of kids with serious weapons
+TroopperFoFo But we are also pushing for sustainable energy, which could prevent the need for such conflicts
+TroopperFoFo
I think the fact that we haven't destroyed ourselves speak tremendously for itself. If anything weapons of mass distraction has prevented a lot of war, but at the same time it is not acceptable for countries like North Korea to have them. And China should know better... The problem is the fight to be the best has made us inconsiderate towards each other. And that needs to stop.
Renewable energy sources!
i wonder if space travel in the far future will be like traveling to another country.
+its bill gates to you son.
It used to take weeks and months to cross the oceans. Now we can do it in hours. So, you may be right! :)
Education is the key. Virtually all threat the world suffers comes from ignorance. We need to make scientific knowledge spread, that's the only hope we have as species, I think.
Shoutout to Dale aka King of Talk
+adam 2 point 0
Dude, that really takes me back! You are the first person to bring that up since I have been on this channel. ;)
Great vid man. I kept waiting for it but you missed one of the most important challenges... the fossil fuel industry. energy.
I think that more people shall need to learn coding to help us as a society develop new equipment and advancement in our lifs
Right now we are at 0.71 on the Kardeshev scale if you wanted to know
BORN JUST IN TIME TO EXPLORE THE DANKEST OF MEMES
love your vids :)
+illuminati confirmed
I appreciate it, thank you for taking the time to watch!
It's ridiculous that this vid only has 33k views and "Dear fat people" has 11MM.
I know.
information overload
Hey Dale, this channel is awesome, I've watching it since your video-biography about Michael. Keep it cool.
One question. What are you studying?
+Carlos Cobian
Hey, thank you for giving me a chance and sticking around!
I study Anthropology, and most of my videos play off of it is some respect! I love it, and to my knowledge there are not a lot of other sizable Anthropological UA-camrs so it's kind of neat being apart of something new!
+Think Fact Now that you mention it, I could imagine your major by the humanistic and social touch on your videos, really deep.
Well, I want to specially thank you for this video because I found if inspirational. As an engineer, with the wild dream of make something big, I felt that I (and everyone) should do something to contribute the build of a better society and prepared to advance in this journey across the universe.
Carlos Cobian
We need optimism, we need people being accountable for themselves, and people willing to make a better world.
If anything, I like to weed through all of the pessimism and "darkness" to find the good in the world. And a push for that!
Engineers have always played a massive part in the progression of humanity, and we need more people thinking like you!
I always like to leave people with this quote, it's one of my favorites and it's from an old Native American song:
"We don't inherit the world from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
Take care, hope to see you around more, and have a good one! :)
I'm from Maine too!
Finally!
I think the problem with "multi-culturalism" is that people mistake culture with morality. Some cultures do have moral aspects that don't work with multi-culturalism and it is important to carve them out. It's important that the people pushing for multi-culturalism point it out and *publicly* disapprove of those.
Look at my country Sweden for example. There're huge shism forming with great backlash coming just because the people pushing for multi-culturalism behaved stupidly: not tolerating criticism of certain aspects of other religions etc. They even went so far as giving an islamist a minister post.
^^ They would consider my post racist ^^
fk Sweden because of its migration policy
Skroot Håller med. Rösta SD.
We need to get rid of 2 things to live in peace.
1. Duality. This "Us vs Them" Mentality.
2. Our Primal "Alpha Dog" Mentality.
Every other problem we face as a Society will diminish by solving these 2 things.
I like the vid man, good stuff! Basic reall ass knowledge everybody should know. But the fucks that own the TV won't give it to the people.
great video!
DANK MEMES is a type-1 culture!! wawwwww amazingg!! :)))
Wow a new video
+dann playsmc
ua-cam.com/video/0o6n55poZGA/v-deo.html
;)
ahaha lol
Great vid
The most important element we as humans need to get over? Our instincts. They are much more active on/in us then anyone person can introspectively realize at any given moment. We currently have governments and economy that reinforce them daily. To remove those would require a massive everyone or nothing approach as humans short that of it would be massive strife.
Most important elements or aspects of humanity to tackle: keyboard warriors.
Actually I don't know if they count elements or aspects. I just think we should tackle them.
Edward Norton, that's who you remind me of.
+beatngu
I actually get that a lot. Haha
Can't say it's a bad thing, he is pretty cool.
+Think Fact Absolutely.
tbh, i doubt we will get to type 1, most likely gonna wipe it self out, sad, but i think thats more likely for a messed up situation we are going into in the future
The single most important thing is good basic education that includes science even if it's science that is politically inconvenient - you can choose ideas, but you can never choose facts. Also free higher education for any who wish to continue learning, not necessarily for jobs, but because it raises the consciousness of populations, it satisfies curiosity, and when you learn what you want to learn, without pressure, it's life enhancing and fun.
He's like onisions smart brother.
Education because it even in first world country's ( I live in Wales a country in the uk ) you don't get taught stuff that you should know For example programming in my mind should be a skill that should be taught as importantly as a second language and the art of code is so important for children now 30 years ago know one would predict how main stream the Internet is even though how big it was at the time and I think that in 20-30 years I think code will be taught over a second language in schools all over the world and also there should be one universal language taught from elementary up even if say France teaches French in there schools but the should priority English just as much.
Ps the main thing wrong with modern day society is that the rich get better education and other vital services than the poor
+Cai Jones
Absolutely, even countries in the west don't learn some key things! Especially personal financing!!! Holy smokes, I know how to calculate the percentage of how many watermelon one would need for X amount of people for X amount of money... But I don't know how to do my own taxes... Priorities.
With that you bring up a lot of good points, thank you for sharing!
AWESOME VIDEO.
Guess what a type 1 civilization's diet is?
:D
Personally I believe humanity will never unite as one. We are simply far too diversed as a species, driven by basic instincts and needs which in turn leads to greed, hunger for power and self destruction seeing where the world is heading right now.
Luckily there are few of those who can see further but I believe there simply is not enough time and effort.
The problem, as michio kaku said, is that our technology is more advanced than our society.
I think you're getting a bit ahead of things. type 0 civilization has existed for several thousand years. There have been ups and downs, but we progress. We don't need to fix this tomorrow. It will suck for a lot of people, but it has for several thousand years. If we rush things we'll just get more push back. We need to communicate and understand our similarities and differences. We aren't a singular society. We are many varied societies. What works for America may not work for everyone, and we mustn't force our ideals on them. We have the means now to talk and listen globally, and slowly we will work toward a common society, but it will take more than the 100 years estimated.
So, we are gonna be... newtypes? XD.
How's college going for you Dale?
+fabian liebregts
Well, my recent hiatus was due to me having to invest quite a bit of time into it. Worked out, but was difficult.
I love it though! It's really helped me grasp how to breakdown logic and the situation, something anthropology (my major) emphasizes on. I have found a lot of what I've gain from it to be extremely useful for what I do here!
Trump and Brexit have made some pretty big dents on the globalization trend. Unfortunately I feel like they can be fatal and push us back 60 years back at best at worst perhaps 200 years.
what, Maine... I'm in Bucksport.
+Darryl Carr
Yeah, I am from Maine. Aroostook County
Quantum Computer and the future of cryptography please
what's the song in the video?
+Ide v
I have a link in the description! :)
So like... humanity is going through puberty
Mom! Don't come into my room! I'm, uh... I'm doing homework!
+Rod Pls how the hell
+Blue Umbrella
That's definitely one interesting way to put it!
robbie Thats RIGHT hahahaha xD
more like a baby trying to take it's first step.
Education, I always said it was education. Imagine if the whole population was educated. There will be no third world countries, there will be no wars, conflicts, racism, sexism, acts against religions, terrorism. The whole world would be put into one mind set, with different opinions, and principles.
it depends on what you consider to be an education
+Dillon Flatt Exactly. The quality of education i would argue is needed much more than the quantity of people getting "educated".
+Wecu Snow I don't think education alone is enough. In fact only pushing education but not careing about "concrete" problems like hunger, environment, poverty, dictatorships etc. can be quite dangerous as people tend to learn mostly things they consider "interesting", so if they get educated about freedom of speech, equality... but don't get a perspective for their life (or the life of their children) they might start rebellions which might (in the worst case) end in endless wars...
I agree with you: Education _is_ an important point, but we need to overcome "concrete" problems simultaneously.
Also education (as it is now) doesn't stop you from being selfish. You may know about world poverty, you may know about thinking, you may know about technology, but as long as you don't have _empathy_ with other people, you will still be the selfish asshole you were before being "educated".
What we need is not only education in our brains but also education in our "hearts" (Sounding pathetic...). But I guess, this will never happen.
And a third point (not anymore related to the previous): Why do we need to evolve to a Type 1 civilization which can use more energy? Why can't we just try to adapt to our environment perfectly and try to be able to work with the resources we have, getting a Type i (mathematician in myself ;) ) society, which breaks the circle of growth and getting bigger, and living happily many years in the paradise we will almost have destroyed in 2016?
(Also "English" as "world language" is a little Anglocentric. The English spoken on the Internet is not everyday English but a language with many dialects and different influences; it is not English as in Britain or America, let's call it Inglish instead)
Footnote: If we get to a Type 1 civilization, it would be good to still have different languages and cultures in order to prevent exchange and innovation from happening because there are no differences anymore. (Also people living in the desert have other problems than people living on the north pole).
Perhaps "extreme" federalism is a very European (especially German) way of solving problems, but it seems to be the only way to connect people with one another by simultaneously keeping their connection tight enough (and it keeps individuality)
In fact, as +Think Fact mentioned, we have some structures like the European Union consisting of 28 countries of which some are divided into states (in Germany that's 16 "Länder") of which some are divided into regions (e.g. Bavarias "Regierungsbezirke") etc.
If we structured the world in a federal way, we could probably get closer to each other, solving problems on
the lowest possible layer.
This might make it difficult to get changes from top to bottom or vice versa, but it could prevent big conflicts (and an evil world-dictatorship) from happening.
+Wecu Snow Not just learning, but learning how to learn, how to unlearn, and like the video implies at the end, learning how to learn what you didn't know that you didn't know.
In many ways, there wouldn't be as many different opinions about everything, there would be no real religion at all, and there would be little conflict except who gets to do what first.
Radioactive Snake I know. Even the Nazis had education, it was just highly regulated by a socialist state. A variety in education creates competition on a local, national, and international level. So with that being said, education isn't the magical cure to all of the world's problems. These socialists don't seem to understand that.
This channel is very underrated and needs more views and subscribers
Type 1 Resource based economy would be cool.
You won't believe how many religious young people in my Asian country would easily say that your video "is a dead giveaway of the devil's old trick/tool of evil etc etc..."
I think education is important, but not just for the curriculum and standardized tests. But for its power to introduce various knowledge about options every person has. To help every single person realizes that they have the chance to learn about themselves and their potential, and finally what they can do to aid the colony.
That is an interesting point, thank you for sharing! Do you mind if I ask which nation you are from?
Think Fact
I live in Indonesia. One of the biggest muslim countries.
+Think Fact this is off topic, but when is your next video coming out. Not trying to rush you or anything, just wondering!
B0bb217
As soon as I can. I have been wanting to get it done for over a month now and it's been really hard to balance everything out. I hope before Sunday! I am really sorry for all of this. haha
+Think Fact Thank you for your reply!
I think the most important thing humanity needs to tackle in order to unite is perspective. If all people were the same, we'd already be united, but that isn't the case. The second best thing is for everyone to be educated in a global perspective. What I mean in global perspective is a perspective where we view humanity as a whole and let go of our exclusive cultural, religious, or ideological divisions. This allows us to sympathise with any human being. To do this, people need to be exposed to multiple perspectives. I grew up in a very conservative country but moved to a liberal western country. This allowed me to adopt both cultures but also made me critical of both at the same time. But as a result, I grew to appreciate different perspectives and understand people no matter their background. I understand that differences exist and always try to view a problem from many different perspectives other than mine. A willingness to adopt and abondon perspectives and understand each other globally is what humanity needs.
Awesome video, Dale. I had heard of the kardashev scale but I never thought to apply it to culture...you make a really good point about how "internet culture" could also be accurately described as global culture. Humanity's frontier is a really cool idea.
Also, noticed the abstergo logo ;)
love your vids they get the brain thinking would love to see more you don't seem to bring out a lot
+the riddle He said that he is going to try more in the New Year on Twitter.
+Infohub that would be brilliant videos proper get me thinking everyone on UA-cam seems to bring out same videos about the same stuff but this is very original and he's facts are spot on haven't got a bad word to say about him
+the riddle Yep, this is my favorite channel!
+Infohub yes me too
+the riddle
I appreciate that, thank you! I do plan on trying to upload more often. Recently I got extremely busy with schoolwork but if I can I'd like to jump back into uploading a video every other week. I hope to see you around! :)
man. this video touched me a lot. especially because i've been living in the 3rd world countries all my life. the video is something.
be an atheist that constantly seek to expand your learning /knowledge and be a peaceful pacifist, don't be patriotic to any nation and we eventually be there into civilization type one, or be there even faster..
+mohamed khan Block chain governance.
Vsauce and ThinkFact(of what I have seen so far from ThinkFact, which are 3 videos the latest one, Micheal Stevens facts and this one) are my kind of channels. If these channels keeps it up, they might be responsible for a more critically thinking younger population. What really irks me is that I won't be around to see humanity finally transcend into the Type: 1 civilization. As important this generation is I just want to know that we made it, all I care about is that we MUST make it.
The Biggest Problem?
Terrorism. Terrorism is really the biggest problem humanity is facing. We could easily reduce a considerable amount of time we would need take to reach the "Type 1" if terrorism wasn't an issue. Education is about the only thing that would make people aware of the bigger picture and not to mention people who are educated but still don't care *need* to read, watch and breath this kind of information. I hope we reach type 1 very soon(atleast in my life time). Lets work towards the bigger picture, It isn't gonna be easy but it will be worthwhile. *SUBBED*
Thank you and I am happy to hear! It is really hard to get an accurate idea over what will happen, but I feel it's important to be proactive and optimistic! Thank you for the comment and I hope to see you around!
realrunner2000 Terrorism's definition is "The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims". So take that as you want. Violence by radicalized groups or organised violence by politicians is terrorism.
A significant barrier is the common person's inability to argue. Arguing is not about being angry or being the most intimidating; when done well, arguing is more akin to brainstorming. Maybe it gets intense, but it's a heat a that refines the quality of ideas like a crucible instead of a heat that burns everyone involved. People not knowing how to argue is what has pulled people apart and what will continue to interfere with people willingly working together. There will always be opposing world views, and when they collide civil conversation can't be expected to prevail; humans are far too passionate to express their worldview without emotion. This is why we all need to learn how to productively argue.
How do you define proper arguing? Avoiding logical fallacies, being civil and understanding towards other people's opinion? After you have a definition you also need to learn and practice; in what context would that be done?
+TheJaredtheJaredlong You make a good point
+TheJaredtheJaredlong couldn't agree more. the problem is very common here in SEA, the place i am born in. people here still holding their traditional belief strongly. especially in chinese community, one of their traditional teaching is to avoid argument (to archive "peace").
+Wyn See I from SEA as well and i couldn't agree more with your statement. People here do not know that somtimes it't good to argue.
+Deriak27Forever I think one basic for proper arguing is to be critical not just to the opposing side, but to your own arguments. But that's just one piece of a giant puzzle.
My first goal when I get a house, big or small is to have a bee hive. You all should too.
+Amiibo Cell LOL?! That's... For the environment right? Yo that's actually super smart! I love bees and they're so important for our environment.
That Potato With Big Dreams And bees are like, nearing extinction. Plus they don't really eff with anybody. I've walked through upwards of like, twenty bees and hadn't had a thing happen to me.
Amiibo Cell Yeah I know whenever people start freakin out I'm just like "Relax! It only stings what attacks it." I think I might too man. :)
+Amiibo Cell
And plant more flowers.
+Amiibo Cell call the queen john key.
So the Time Lords are type 5, right?
Yeah probably, considering they could wipe out humans or cause them to flourish millions of years earlier, they could really do just about anything physically possible using time travel. And that's why I'm glad they don't exist, because one douchebag could destroy all of humanity.
Yeah, thxs for getting rid of them, Doc!
+Marmadoc Brown He did but he kind of didn't
What about precursors from halo? they would be like type 6 100 billion years of knowledge
***** type three is already above god
I suppose the most important issue for me is overcoming religious and cultural barriers. It blocks ways of communication before it even starts, and seeing how we need communication in order to become a Type 1 Civilization, this is vital for advancing our civilization.