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Futurist Michio Kaku visits Chattanooga State

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Michio Kaku says technology waits for no one.

A renowned theoretical physicist, futurist and author, Kaku spent Thursday getting the Chatttanooga State campus up to speed on what he sees coming in the technology, economic and higher education systems of the future.

Kaku contends that most colleges are training their students for jobs of the past.

"There is no 1950 anymore," he said, "but our college system is still not up to speed."

The current college system is largely stuck preparing students for an economy based on "commodity" capital consisting of tangible products and services, Kaku said. Instead, he said, universities should ponder how they can prepare students for a world based on intellectual capital.

"I've interviewed 300 of the world's top scientists to get the best understanding of the future, and they tell me that, 'Hey, we're training a lot of people to graduate into the unemployment line,'" Kaku said. "The message I tell young people is that first of all, science is the engine of prosperity."

At Brown University and Duke University, specifically, Kaku has noticed an embrace of the continued pairing of technology with the human mind that he forsees as prevalent in the future.

"We put a chip in people's brain and connect them to a laptop and they can type, surf the Web, control their wheelchair, write emails, do crossword puzzles, and they're totally paralyzed," he said.

But regardless of the continued growth of online college course work, Kaku subscribes to the notion that human interaction will remain crucial in the higher education system of the future, perhaps just in reinvented roles.

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Kanye West: I Want To Teach North My Confidence & How To Dream

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Kanye West called his bride-to-be Kim Kardashian and daughter North a family of astronauts in a recent interview with director Steve McQueen for Interview magazine. The rapper also talked about experiencing fatherhood, revealing how he wants to teach his daughter to dream and shoot for the stars.

Kanye Westis known for saying crazy things, and this time, he bizarrely called his fianceKim Kardashianand their daughter North, astronauts while calling himself a broadcaster for futurism. He also explained that he wants to instill out-of-this-world confidence in his daughter just like he has!

In Kanyes long interview with 12 Years a Slave director, Steve McQueen, he responded to questions about his unconditional love towards North, and how things have changed since he became a father.

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I think I have to experience it [fatherhood] for another few years to be able to give you an opinion, he told McQueen forInterview.Its all brand new, how it feels to be a father. There are some things that I understand, certain things that I dont understand, certain things that I like to get off my chest in interviews, certain things that I want to talk about. But when we talk about love, I dont have an answer. All I can say is that Im happy I have it.

Kanye couldnt stop gushing about his family, but he bizarrely referred to them as astronauts.

Well, Ive got my astronaut family. You know, becoming famous is like being catapulted into spacesometimes without a space suit. Weve seen so many people combust, suffocate, get lost in all these different things. But to have an anchor of other astronauts and to make a little space familyI wanted a family.

Kanye hopes that the wisdom he learned from his late mother and grandpa will be passed down to Nori.

The teachings and the confidence that was instilled by my grandfather into my mother, and from my mother into mewhich will now, of course, be instilled by me into Northwill create the best winter coat against doubters and dream-killers ever made, he said.

Kanye went onto say that he it is his job to advocate for dreamers.

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Freedom House: Philippines is ‘partly free’

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WASHINGTON The Philippines retained its status for the fourth straight year as a "partly free" country but was a standout among Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members in a survey of political rights and civil liberties in 195 nations conducted by Freedom House.

The Washington-based non-government organization, in its Freedom in the World 2014 report, rated the Philippines one of 59 partly free countries and gave it a score of 3 points each in political rights and civil liberties. Eighty-eight countries were ranked as free and 48 were deemed not free.

ASEAN members Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore were in the partly free grouping and all, with the exception of Indonesia, had scores of 4 points each in political rights and civil liberties.

Indonesias status declined from free to partly free due to the adoption of a law that, among other things, restricts activities of non-government organizations and increases bureaucratic oversight of such groups, Freedom House said.

Its civil liberties rating declined also from 3 to 4 though it managed to eke out a score of 2 points in political rights.

It was the second time this month that the Philippines received a positive international rating.

Last week, the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal in their 2014 Index of World Economic Freedom upgraded the Philippines to 89th place from 97th previously out of 178 countries because of a dedication of reform amongst the countrys leadership.

Freedom House examines the ability of individuals to exercise their political and civil rights around the world and assigns each country two numerical ratings from 1 to 7 for political rights and civil liberties. The average of the ratings determines whether a country is free, partly free or not free.

One point represents the most free and seven the least free rating.

The remaining five other members of the ASEAN Vietnam, Laos, Brunei, Myanmar and Cambodia were deemed not free in the Freedom House report.

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Freedom House finds decline in political freedom in 2013

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Political rights and civil liberties declined around the world in 2013 for the eighth consecutive year, the annual report released by Freedom House said.

"Freedom in the World" said 54 countries lost ground while only 40 became more open and democratic. The report cited Egypt, where a military coup displaced an elected president, and China, where the government has cracked down on dissent.

Freedom House, which has its headquarters in Washington, is a non-governmental organization founded in 1941 to foster political liberty.

"Some leaders effectively relied on 'modern authoritarianism,' crippling their political opposition without annihilating it, and flouting the rule of law while maintaining a veneer of order, legitimacy and prosperity," the report said. "Central to modern authoritarians is the capture of institutions that undergird political pluralism. They seek to dominate not only the executive and legislative branches, but also the media, judiciary, civil society, economy, and security forces."

The report identified the 10 most oppressive countries as the Central African Republic, Somalia, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan.

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