Dream & Planning for Future

Unit 4 Discussion Board

Dream & Planning for Future

Primary Response

ThienSi (TS) Le

CS875-1602C-01

Futuring & Innovation

Dr. Imad Al Saeed

 (16-May-2016)

In Unit 4 Discussion Board on the topic of “Planning for Future”, students are required to discuss their dream and plan for the future. This short piece of writing will provide the individual dream and make a personal plan in five areas (i.e., education, job or research, philosophy or religions, travel, and home) in this discussion. 

(Source: Adapted from healingabout.com & favirn.com, n.d.)

            This assignment that is about a personal dream and planning for the future is uniquely different from the other assignments. It contains a single wildest question:
     “If you had all of the time, money, and talent in the world, what would you do in (1) education, (2) job or research, (3) philosophy or religion, (4) travel, and (5) home?”

            If I had all powers, what would I do?

            Maybe, I would want to be a king who would build a weirdest kingdom with total powers, wealth, fame, women, etc. in a dictatorship and enjoy myself. Fortunately, it would never happen!

            If I had all of the time, money, and talent in the world, I would do as follows:

1. Education

     - Study medicine to earn the second Doctorate in Medicine (MD).

     - Learn the third doctorate in Education.

     - Study law to become a patent law attorney.

     - Practice martial arts: Taekwondo, Hapkido, Karate, Aikido, and Judo.

     - Learn to become a solo classical guitarist.

     - Study to earn a licensed Professional Engineer in Electrical, Electronic, and Computer.

     - Study new theories about robotics, astronomy, and universe (Dobson, 2015). 

     - Learn to create a new generation of the programming languages.

     - Learn to become a futurist (Grant, 2016), theorist, academician, technology evangelist, statistician.   

     - Study to become a good politician, a grand peace ambassador, and a great religious leader.

2. Job or research

     - An MD who can treat all patients in a free hospital system

     - A practitioner and a researcher who can cure all cancer diseases.

     - Teach these martial arts. 

     - Teach computer and sciences.

     - Open a socio-technical school network system that is tuition-free to everyone.

     - Provide funds for technologies to educate people from the Third world.

     - Become an expert in analytics, adaptive learning, and robotics (New Media Consortium, n.d.).

     - Become a futurist in technologies.

     - Be a specialist in technological innovation (Kelly, 2007).

     - A great politician, a mediator who can solve the conflicts such as problem between Israel and Palestine & Muslim countries.

     - A fundraiser who creates the funds to support veterans, war wounded, homeless, the poor, and women.

     - A thinker who can perform research and develop reports and recommendations on difficult issues (Caliva, & Scheier, 1992).

3. Philosophy or religion

     - Internship in Buddhism in India, Catholicism in Vatican, Islamism in Arab countries. 

     - A spiritual leader who promotes peace and harmony among the conflicts among these religions.

     - A philosopher about human and life.

     - A teacher who teaches a new theory of philosophy.

     - A prophet who innovates the religions.

     - An analyst and synthesizer between the West and East cultures to promote human life and human rights.

     - A mediator who can solve the refugees’ issues among the countries.

     - A contributor who contributes novel knowledge to the body of the knowledge.

     - A student who seeks a new philosophy.

     - A dreamer who dreams the world as one.  

4. Travel

     - A tourist who tours around the America.

     - A member of the expedition who expedites the inner center of the Earth (Verne, 1864).

     - A traveler who travels and explore the world on this planet.  

     - A student who learns and lives among people in different countries.

     - A spacewalker who walks beyond the Earth into the universe.

     - A space traveler who explores the deep far milky way for the size of the universe.

     - An explorer who explores the after-life world of the dead.

     - A communicator who can communicate with intelligent things from other planets.

     - A scientist who travels and finds out how and where the humans come from.

     - A searcher who search for a living planet in deep space that supports human life.

5. Home

     - Finish up the basement of the house or buy a new house.

     - Add a spa, a swimming pool, and sunlight, moonlight windows.

     - Buy a summer home in Hawaii.

     - Add guest rooms.

     - Add two more bathrooms.

     - Build housing for the poor, homeless, veterans, and abused women.

     - Provide homes to the un-employees, old people, retirees, patients. 

     - Operate restaurant chains to serve homeless, wounded veterans, etc.

     - Build building complex for refugees who leave the war zones.

     - Create a city or island for people who can settle and live there.

In summary, if possible, I would study to become an MD, law attorney, science professor, and a grand martial artist master who can treat patients, practice research to cure all diseases, and teach people in technologies, and innovation. As a philosopher and spiritual leader, I would solve the conflicts between Israel and Arab worlds with new religious theory. As a space traveler, I would explore the inner Earth and expedite the Milky Way for living things in outer space and find other inhabitant planets for human colonies. For homeless, poor, war-wounded, refugees, abused women, etc. I would provide and support housing, education, and foods. Since I may be a dreamer, I wish to be a "God without Borders", who leads an enlightening torch to lessen humans’ pains, diminish their sorrow, and abate their misery for democracy and freedom for all.

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Grant, A. (2016). T.E.D Talks: the surprising habits of original thinkers. Retrieved onApril 06, 2016 from http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers 

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