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We did it! Today the North Carolina State Senate adjourned for the year without passing S.B. 648, an "ag-gag" bill that sought to keep the public in the dark about animal abuse and food-safety problems on factory farms. We are thrilled to announce that this means all 11 state-level whistleblower suppression bills proposed this year were defeated!
This huge victory is thanks to the hard work of a large coalition of interest groups and the actions of concerned citizens, like the dedicated members of the ASPCA Advocacy Brigade, who told their legislators that they want transparency and accountability when it comes to how farm animals are treated. With the defeats of these bills, we have shown the agriculture industry that suppressing investigations—and the hard truths they often uncover—is not an acceptable response to the real problem of abuse on factory farms.
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Earlier this year, the ASPCA assisted in a three-state dog fighting bust alongside the FBI, Missouri Highway Patrol and several other agencies.
When we found these dogs, many were doomed to live their whole lives tethered by heavy chains—and on the day of the raid, many were left outside to suffer through a blizzard.
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We wanted to show you some of these dogs' happy faces and thank you for helping us make their rescue possible. We couldn't have taken on this massive operation without your help!
Slideshow: Amazing Transformation of Dog Fighting Victims
In June 2012, the ASPCA rescued dozens of dogs from a Bronx dog fighting ring. Andrea K. adopted one of these special dogs, named 17, and shared the following story with us:
In May 2012, I lost my Pit Bull of 11 years, Mojo Jojo, to osteosarcoma. My heart was broken. I knew I would adopt another Pit Bull but wasn't quite ready yet. I decided to foster a puppy named 17. He fit in really well, and loves his housemates—we have three Staffordshire Bull Terriers named Charlie, Rumble and Page, and two adopted cats named Mush and Viggo. After about three weeks, we decided to officially adopt him.
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A lot of people ask us why his name is 17. When we first took him home, his paperwork said #17/Arthur, meaning 17 of the 47 dogs in the case. "17" stuck and it is perfect because people always ask about it, which gives us an opportunity to educate people that great dogs really can come from cases of cruelty and neglect. No one forgets his name, either.
We'd like to thank the ASPCA for the great work they do and the opportunity they give animals like 17 every day in their work.
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We're excited to announce the voting has begun in the ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge Photo Contest! We received hundreds of adorable submissions from adopters across the country who adopted pets from shelters competing in the $100K Challenge.
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Why is visual literacy discouraged in most cultures & WHAT CAN WE DO to change that?
This LIVE CONVERSATION will open at 1PM ET/ 10AM PT on Monday, October 31th! Join me!
Visual literacy, if described as the ability to communicate via doodling, drawing, and sketching or described as the ability to display complex information in visual language formats, is often a literacy missing in adults despite it being a universal and natural inclination in children. Why does it disappear? And more importantly, what can we do to alter this course?
**ADMIN UPDATE: Sunni Brown has asked to extend her Conversation for two weeks. She will be jumping in to catch up with responses over the next two weeks. Happy posting everyone!
Rob Appleby
Nov 4 2011: Before you can walk, you can draw. Before you can talk, you can draw. Before you can read, you can draw. Before you can write...... YOU CAN DRAW
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So with all that experience behind us, why do so many people say 'I can't draw"
35,000 years since we started painting on cave walls and carving figures out of Mammoth ivory.
What have we done to ourselves that we educate our children to think of art and visual thinking as being a secondary, lesser subject.
Policy makers sitting ostentatious offices with art hanging on their walls, nicely designed suits, desks and chairs, driving to work in their beautifully designed cars, telling us that Art isn't as important as other subjects.
Nov 5 2011: Agree 100%!
(With my own bias as artist I would extend it: before you can draw, you can paint!)
The fact that drawing/doodling actually requires processing (unlike, for example, automatic writing) indicates that it takes active listening and contributes to anchor learning and increase retention.
Weather is art itself, or the ability to take notes this way that are suppressed, this simply reinforces the belief that instruction and indoctrination are preferred over education.
A passive student doesn't ask questions, but accepts all facts -he already lost his chance to learn!
Thomas Jones
Nov 7 2011: Some time ago, I owned several graphics companies. At that time, if you asked people what were the five largest industries, no one would have put graphics in the list. Probably no one would even put it in the top ten.
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As it turns out it was the fourth largest: after food, clothing, and automobiles.*
I'm not sure were it would be placed now. I think hospitality/tourism is now considered the "biggest" industry ... but I'm not sure.
Think about every industry, no matter what else they do, they all use graphics: from package design, to signage; corporate ID to reports; to advertising, business cards, menus, vehicles, clothing, and so on.
* These are industries categorized in broad stokes: automobiles would include all support for autos; graphics would include design, printing, printing presses and inks, paper, photography, typography; and so on.
Nov 8 2011: Graphics....used in entertainment, advertising..... It wouldn't surprise me if graphics had actually grown given how influential advertising is and how much demand there is for advertising anywhere it can possibly fit.
I think visuals not only have the capacity to communicate, I think visuals influence our beliefs and decision making.Nov 9 2011: I hate to post rumors or look like a fool, but one thing I heard was that advertising is a tax write off for companies. Is that true?
Nov 9 2011: It depends on the country you're in but generally, yes, advertising is seen a s "business expense" and can be written off.Nov 10 2011: Wow Thomas! Who knew. You just surprised me with that information. Thank you
Tory Rivelli
Oct 31 2011: It's too bad I won't be able to see this conversation live. I ALWAYS am made fun of when I'm trying to describe something to someone and have to resort to drawing it so they understand exactly what I mean.
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Oct 31 2011: Tory, you just send those people to me. I'll handle them.
Druid Lutes
Oct 31 2011: I also have to visualize when I am talking and I often find that I begin to see far more clearly what it is I am trying to express as I make the picture. My claim to household fame is any time my wife and I are at a restaurant I usually have all the sugar packets out making a map with them as the representation marker. I do get some strange looks when I have 10 packets and just need 3 moreOct 31 2011: Include me in this category too. There is a tactile quality to thinking, which is why I sketch. The benefit when I am done, is it is easier to remember when I can locate something visually in my mind.Nov 1 2011: I am a visual learner, and I struggled with the way mathematics was taught at my school and university. I later did my own research into visual methods for learning the same things. For example, the water analogy for electronics, and ancient Greek (and older) methods for calculating geometries using shapes, which were more visual-based, and came before algebra. This really helped me and I think it would help other right-brained people if they were taught both ways.
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I think children should be taught both visually and verbally, to make learning more effective, and to reduce classroom problems that occur when teachers think in a different way to students. There is also the generation gap in brain structure caused by differences in environments while growing up - my generation grew up with computers, my teachers grew up with books - as a result, our brains are structured differently. Kids that think differently could fail classes just because the teacher isn't catering for different brain types. This puts kids off subjects like mathematics, science, engineering, electronics etc. which they could potentially learn if they were taught the right way.
Nov 1 2011: You are so on target!!!
And ancient Greeks knew how to do it, just look at the Socratic school -the Maieutica- where a SMALL group of students were guided by a wise teacher through an inquisitive thinking process, questioning everything and reviewing all accepted knowledge inside and out. The assumption was that we do not really know anything yet, we have to discover all. Also, that everyone was able to access this truths through this process.
Outside, under the trees, with visuals and tactile experiences... it sounds very avant-garde if you ask me.
I can hear Cher now, "If I could turn back time..."Nov 1 2011: Math history has been the most appealing approach to the subject for me. By telling a story it explains the 'why' portion so well. Where it came from, how it got there, and why we do it the way we do today. When I found out that algebra was done with two parallel number lines it blew my mind. All of these ties with Greek history you mention would be tied beautifully into myth readings. These combinations offer an in depth learning experience.
Nov 1 2011: Guys, I absolutely agree! Also, I think teaching things alongside other material and showing how they are related further reinforces long-term memory. If you teach mathematics on its own, numbers, functions and their relationships can lack meaning. Applying the relationships in real world situations, adding a background story and history to why it is done that way really helps students.
Perhaps doodling looks immature, but studies I've read/heard about show doodling is really beneficial to memory and creativity (sorry about lack of references). Also, music is really beneficial to mathematical understanding, with all the harmonic relationships etc. Education and industry needs to catch up with science!Nov 1 2011: Mr Froebel, the creator of kindergarten, also created the core of his program, called The Gifts. Look into that, worth it!
It was a math set, ALL MANIPULATIVES, all visual and kinesthetic, that is admired even today. He favored open ended activities, LOTS of "play" time, where children explored and talked to discover natural laws. All rare things in today's education, by the way...
I have never seen M. Bradley's version (do you mean a Hasbro game similar to the Gifts?)
But I have been trained on the 1820 set (a replica), the progression of concepts, the goals, etc.
Incredible material, challenging even for adults!
Nov 2 2011: Milton Bradley distorted Mr. Froebel's Gifts to the point that they were unrecognizable compared to their original version's intent. Sad to see this distortion pursued for the sake of profit.
His Gifts do live on in many respects in Waldorf education, which is gaining in popularity worldwide.
Fritzie -
Nov 1 2011: I have taught math for a long time, and we always have done it with sketching, making diagrams, and so forth. Even calculus involves sketching. It is a fundamental aspect of figuring out what the problem is really asking. Students are expected to have diagrams as part of showing how they did their work.I think math instruction is one area in which sketching things out has long been accepted as necessary.I have never taught writing, but it seems to me the way kids are taught to sketch out plots of stories also involves diagrams. And social studies involves lots of map-making and timelines done by hand by kids.
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So in my teaching career and watching my three kids in schools public and private, I cannot say I have seen a neglect of visual tools in learning and communication.
Nov 2 2011: Well said, Fritzie. I think we need to be very careful about not over-generalising on this thread. There is a lot of good education going on that makes extensive use of the visual.Nov 2 2011: I can definitely relate with you. I excelled in Geometry and flunk badly in Algebra. Had to jump 10+ schools in my entire life.
I'm glad that my kids are living in this day and age that schools are aware of the different kinds of learning although most don't do anything about it.
It's the system that kills visual learning. Example: My kids take Math everyday and have Art once a week.
Nov 2 2011: Oliver, isn't it an oxymoron?
The reason the curriculum pushes math is, in principle, because it is such a needed tool in many real life occupations today, such as computer programming, engineering, physics, etc.
Yet, the way it is implemented keeps it disconnected from real applications in a formulaic confusion of rot memory data and useless required demonstrations. If it were hands on, deductive, exploratory and project based (e.g. build a bridge that supports X weight, or a robotic device for a given purpose) kids of any age and skill would feel at ease with at least the rudiments and practical use of algebra.
Nov 2 2011: Yes, problem-based learning! I had to discover this myself as a young student because it was not talked about or existed in my country during the early 80s.
Stuart Gall
Oct 31 2011: I have 3 children 5,9,12 and I am amazed at how easily they can learn a Playstation Game, or learn all the types of pokemon their evolved forms. Then how difficult it is for them to learn anything at school.
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The types of pokemon and their evolved forms ISTM has very similar meta data structure to the chemical elements. So if a child can learn all the classes of pokemon they should easily be able to learn the periodic table and the group of each element, because it is simpler. But this is not the case.
I have come to the conclusion that the way information is presented to them at school is no longer compatible with children. (Assuming it ever was).
I think education should shrug off all this "Playing Computer games" and "Watching too much TV" is bad, and take a LONG HARD look at what works, what form of presentation makes information easy for a child to absorb.
We have the technology, advertisers know 100% how to get information into a child's mind.
Give me history on a DVD, in cartoon format, let the kid watch it 20 times like they do with every other DVD they will learnt up, down, and sideways.
Give me maths on a PS3 game where you have to get to level 10 to pass the year.
Oct 31 2011: In this case I would make note that the element of the GAME is also contributing heavily to your children's interest in and capacity for learning. I have a book called Gamestorming which was driven in part by the idea that games are powerful vehicles for learning. And I agree - most schools can't possibly keep up with the changing technology and expectations of children these days. They're swimming upstream while the kids are on hovercrafts carrying iPads. That's partly why I don't expect the vehicle for increased visual literacy to be schools or educational institutions. I think the learner is going to be largely responsible for how s/he manages and learns information. And that sounds daunting, but because visual language is so native to us, it's not a big leap to a quick fortification of our thinking skills.
Oct 31 2011: Sunni, it sounds like you're advocating more of a (re)validation for young people that, whatever expectations their teachers/educators/peers have, that this is a legitimate, even advantageous way of learning, thinking and communicating.Oct 31 2011: I believe DreamBox turns math into a fun video game. Dreambox is a company that I believe is owned by #Reed Hastings, founder of Netflix.
rich hammel
Oct 31 2011: You'd think this would be a critical skill in a business climate so addicted to power point.
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Oct 31 2011: The fact that it's not KILLS me. Business is operating in a hyper-competitive, global, socially-connected, incredibly complex space and YET here most of us are, trying to talk and inspire people using slides with clip art. I can't tell you how many business ideas are a direct result of sketching. Without them, we wouldn't have the Internet (thank you, Al Gore!), or the telephone, or moving pictures.
Austin Davis
Oct 31 2011: "I can't tell you how many business ideas are a direct result of sketching." -Sunni Brown
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What many parents and teachers around the world discourage is EXACTLY what leads to the latest innovations and and most significant company ideas of our world! What a Paradox.
Nov 1 2011: Schools discourage what is needed in many ways. For example, nearly everything a school calls cheating is an essential skill in business. Such a paradox, then, should not surprise us, but that is a different topic.
Back to your point about the value of sketches, you are right on. A lot of businesses start that way. Many others, though, start with a few sentences, which form an outline. All projects, business or otherwise, start out with an overview, then get into the details. If you sketch a construction project, that will eventually become a blueprint before a shovel hits the dirt.Oct 31 2011: I'm seeing teachers at the elementary school where my wife works use graphic organizers more frequently. It excites me that these students are using visual elements to understand their world. Anyone have similar experiences?
Oct 31 2011: Yes.. wholeheartedly concur. I'm seeing students having fewer hangups about using any number of tools to help get their ideas down somewhere. I credit a lot of it to the growth of Web 2.0 where collaboration, invention and creativity are actually more encouraged. More opportunities to share with others one's talents, ideas and opinions. Problem for many is not knowing certain tools exist.Oct 31 2011: Why does it disappear? I attended a lecture just two Saturdays ago, by David J. Lewkowicz, where he explained that development integration and differentiation (of the senses) appear to be simultaneous and needed processes, showing there are regressions of functional capacity when a perceptual ability is not stimulated. I had not related it to visual literacy, but now that you pose the question, it popped out in my mind.
Maybe the lack of stimulation for visual literacy in main stream school systems leads to the regression of such a capacity. So that idea would lead me to ask myself (and others) why isn't it stimulated? Isn't it needed in further life? Or is an underrated skill?
Maybe I was too technical, lol, I see no one answering. XD
Oct 31 2011: In my experience, it is a dramatically underrated skill. And not having heard Lewkowicz' lecture, I would likely agree that we lose functional capacity when this skill isn't nurtured or stimulated. It's like being born with huge, innate potential and then letting it wilt. For reasons that seem to have no real merit. Obviously, we can all get by without the capacity of drawing or sketching, but we can also get by without proper nutrition or sanitation. The question is: why would we want to?
Oct 31 2011: Usually it is considered brain economy, the brain lets go certain capacities to achieve mastery in others. The thing is, why is school to decided what capacity should wilt!!!
Kenneth Bell
Oct 31 2011: One of the most important purposes of communication is not to express an idea so people can understand, but to express it so accurately that people can find fault. This is particularly critical in negotiations, but also in engineering, law, medicine, etc. It is my belief that visuals may convey a flavor or the borad picture, but it is hard to find errors in a visual representation. Not always, of course, but I think that is a common issue.
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Oct 31 2011: Interesting idea... what about things like schematics, blueprints, scientific drawings?
Really curious what visual leagalese would look like. :)Oct 31 2011: Kenneth, I love what you said about expressing an idea so people can find fault with it. Visual depictions, like words, however, CAN and should be be critiqued. Indeed, the process of creating visual maps inherently empowers the creator to get a better understanding of the subject matter and then, upon presentation, gives the viewer an opportunity to scrutinize the information. It may be hard to find errors in visual representations precisely BECAUSE we aren't visually literate. It's much like our inability to determine a good commercial from a commercial that's full of shit. We don't have much media literacy either. :(( You might enjoy this article from Science: http://www.livescience.com/15747-doodling-science-education.html
Oct 31 2011: Media literacy or advocacy for that matter are absent from school wide education. This is a bit out of balance from the amount of time spent in school verses the amount of time a student is exposed to media. I vaguely recall the number of hours a student is engulfed in media is as much if not more than the number of hours in class at school K-12. This provides a dynamic challenge in gaining the attention of students, let alone competing with what media is saying to and guiding our youth to do. School's role is to teach people how to think, not what to think. Students need help being able to discern between the good, the bad, and the ugly in all the world portrayed by media, the classroom teacher, and the folks at home.Oct 31 2011: I think the tide is turning, slowly, towards awareness of visual literacy. See the recent infographic trend. I'd like to think that in another few decades we'll be teaching visual literacy along with language literacy. I wonder how this will look in our classrooms...
Until that day comes, I think it's going to take giving as many people a taste of the benefits and power of visual communication as possible. I find most people become "converts" once they get direct experience of visual notetaking, visual meetings, etc.
Oct 31 2011: Kelly, absolutely. I spent a LOT of time talking people through the value of visual communication and it takes almost NO time to show it to them. The experience is where the impact is.
matt lumpkin
Oct 31 2011: I think one aspect of the challenge is the notion that visual communication/processing requires "talent" from the genetic lottery while we expect, that everyone will be able to read and write regardless of talent. Yet that doesn't mean that everyone who writes will write good poetry or novels, but that doesn't stop us from using the tools of language. Similarly, if we move towards seeing sketching/doodling/visual communication as a critical tool and de-couple it from great works of art, it might seem more accessible.
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Oct 31 2011: I agree and think we can trace this back to the 2-3 grade, prior to learing how to read and write most kids draw feverishly until they become conscious of the concept of a good drawing and a bad one.Oct 31 2011: The "talent" argument is one of the four I hear most often. We have a miseducated belief that "art" is exclusive and that the visualization of content needs to be beautiful. While beauty is certainly appreciated in art and the mastery of form should be applauded, talent is NOT is prerequisite for visual literacy. In fact, the opposite is true. The impact of creating and processing visual information is available to anyone who dives in to the experience, regardless of perceived skill. That is one aspect of the Doodle Revolution that will never change.
Oct 31 2011: Curious - what are the other 3?
Kenneth Bell
Oct 31 2011: Pictionary taught me one great lesson, and that was how unimportant a beautiful or accurate drawing was, and how important speed and clarity were.
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Oct 31 2011: In order to qualify speed as an advantage to that game, you must be able to simplify and stylized whatever it is you are trying to draw to save time. This requires talent.Oct 31 2011: Moreover, the actual quality of the drawing is irrelevant. Just as the only requirements for ones notes is that one can read them the same is true for graphic notes.
Plus it does not have to be sketches, islands of text in boxes with arrows between them, geometrical shapes, different colors.
Whatever works. Children should be encouraged to take notes in any format that works for them.
The only way to do that is to show the class 4 or 5 examples of "non linear" note taking and let each student adopt a personal system that works for them.Oct 31 2011: Great point, I couldn't agree more.
I would love to see the day when lines/shapes/color are as democratically used as words and grammar. Where did this divide come from? When did we conflate mark-making with art-making?
Laurel Goetz
Nov 7 2011: I believe there are a number of factors that keep us from moving forward as a culture focused on mastering visual literacy. First, sadly, drawing/doodling/etc. are not practiced everyday for communication in most social/learning settings, nor is it encouraged on a daily basis in classrooms/social settings.
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Second, many people are intimidated by creating art in any capacity because of the fear of failure and/or ridicule.
As a social experiment, ask anyone over the age of 11 to draw an unfamiliar object or animal while you watch them. Take note of how many times each person does one or all of the following: erase, retry, make excuses for their short comings, give up, "x" out their work, or deny the challenge outright. I wonder how many people will apologize for their drawing not being "perfect" when they finally finish and show you.
The arts are also commonly mistaken as a frill added onto our education system; not as something that will super charge it. But I believe the tide IS turning.
Maybe people simply miss the fact that visual language is a system of patterns not too different from the patterns found in language arts, science, and math. All of which are used to report back our findings from observing our surroundings in nature to record history, help predict future patterns, or mimic them for our civilizations' better good.
As a visual learner, I understand the basic form of visual language as a straight line and a curved line (a single letters/number) that can be manipulated into a shape (word/number) which we combine with other shapes and lines to create an image (sentence/equation) to serve a specific purpose whether it is to pose a question, answer a question, or explore a thought. Artistic process and the scientific process are the same to me. If we bring total awareness to these shared patterns, nonvisual learners may finally understand it.
Nov 9 2011: "Artistic process and the scientific process are the same to me."
Short story... My old elementary school holds an art and invention show together in the same space every year. This is a collaborative effort between two specialists, the art teacher and the science teacher of a progressive school. (Yes, science is a specialist along with library, art, music, and sports [physical education]) Students get to show off their art works and share their inventions both kinds of work convey great ideas.
The connections between art and science mirror each other. Theory, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, and then repeat based on your findings are how artists and scientists inform their work. There is a lot of discovery, accidental answers to unasked questions, and unknown outcomes. Original ideas are crushed or altered by pursuing a painting or experiment. Some might damn this as 'failure' or as a 'mistake' and judge it to be 'bad.' I argue otherwise and find it essential to learning. Anyone who is free of error does not exist. The more mistakes a person makes the greater lived experience they have earned.
Finding the strength to be brave enough to face failure is not as difficult as ridicule from others. Critical cruelty from the exterior world can work its way into the mind of anyone. Even lies can become beliefs after routine battery from peers especially during adolescence.
Overcoming negative feedback from others and especially yourself is the greatest challenge we face in order to try. Shutting down and running away seem to be safe places to be, where these kinds of feelings appear to 'go away.' These feelings actually anchor in and dig deeper, keeping people from pursuing their dreams and ideas. The real struggle is letting go of them and not finding comfort or familiarity in their pain.
My question at this point is how to address it? What can be done to alter, adjust, or advance through these challenges? Where does it come from, is it learned or taught?
Peter Han
Nov 2 2011: I agree with numerous contributors to this post that the situation is not as bleak as it may at first appear.
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In my corporate career with huge manufacturing firms, it is my experience that visual literacy is highly valued for many reasons. One reason is that visual images can represent complex relationships concisely, accurately and in a compelling way. Another reason is that visual images usually do not need translation the way text does. I worked in firms that operated in up to 90 countries so the time, expense of translation was significant.
I am surprised that Edward Tufte has not been mentioned in this conversation yet. He has published at least 4 major books on visual literacy and conducts workshops around the world on this topic. http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ In one of my former employers, training in Tufte's workshops was a common choice for professionals across different functions.
Another phenomenon is the rising popularity of illustrated/graphic novels as serious communication forms. Nick Sousanis is a talented graphic novelist who creates remarkable works on a variety of topics, including the nature of thinking. http://spinweaveandcut.blogspot.com/
Yet another interesting development is the field of data visualization which has become more and more valued as the sheer amount of information freely available rises exponentially.
Finally, I believe that cultures with pictograph-derived written languages have a greater regard for visual literacy. I recall working hard to create aesthetically balanced characters when learning to write Chinese script. The feeling and skills I used to write such characters were markedly different from those I experienced when writing English words, even English script.Oct 31 2011: This is interesting in that I guess I didn't realize it was being discouraged. I have but recently come into contact with RSAnimate, which I find an absolutely amazing and captivating way of transmitting ideas. So much so I am looking at developing some courses I am working on to incorporate more visual.
I was also just watching to a TED presentation by Bruce Schneier, in which he made the statement "we are also a species of story tellers. We respond to stories more than data."
This idea is driving what I'm working on in this very moment, and why I find this interesting that this is some how being discouraged.
One thing which comes to mind, which Emmie Thomas stated in her post regarding the possibility of visual language being missing due to the difficulty in acquiring the skills to present it effectively. I too have to wonder if sheer presentation of an idea is easier in a non-visual format for many people. I know several people who are artistically inclined and who design things of beauty with a skill I don't even come close to having. For me, not having this advanced skill level has, in the past, caused me to hold back on even considering visual presentation of some of my ideas. But as I move forward with this project I am working on, I absolutely not only see the need, but the power of a strong visual component to the learning process.
I have to wonder if there is a way to create a easy to use interface where people can display their ideas visually. First thing which comes to mind is mind-mapping. This concept has changed my life when it comes to how I approach the development of my ideas. Maybe accessibility to resources which make visual presentation easier would help.
Oct 31 2011: It's interesting that Robert Cornell should bring up Bruch Schneier's statement, "we are a species of story tellers. We respond to stories more than data." This resonates with us very much. In our Knowji Vocab apps, we strived to teach vocabulary through the use of illustrations, stories and audio. We created a set of characters that interrelate with one another in the example sentences throughout the lessons. This provides learners richer context for learning. It also helps to elicit emotions from the learner, which also helps with learning and remembering. It is very difficult to learn obscure and abstract words and ideas with a simple short definition. Such de-contextualized learning is boring and makes developing a visual representation of an idea difficult in our minds.
Robert, what is the name of your project?
Raj Menon
Oct 31 2011: And oh, btw, completely on board with tool vs. skill differentiation. My point was that most people learned "how to make presentations" because of Microsoft Powerpoint. (Of course there are those (including me) who would argue that PowerPoint has taught us all bad habits! :) 'nuff said...)Oct 31 2011: Visual Literacy in children in innate for most. Did you see a 3 year old playing with an iPhone and iPad? I am an artist, a visual multimedia designer and a teacher. Been surrounded by technology for many years and played a role in numerous visual design projects for large companies. I cannot compare the speed with which they can "read" a visual interface with my own. We are looking at a whole new generation of visually literate human beings. As teachers we should push this angle in our curriculums and practices. As parents, need to take matter into our own hands and stimulate it, endorse it, while the system is catching up. (oh so slowly )... After this session I am hoping to get an insight as to what can be done to promote visual literacy. Will there be a recap?
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Oct 31 2011: About cost of illiteracy, I once read from a training journal that illiteracy costs U.S. businesses $60 billion a year in lost productivity. I can try to dig up the research if anyone is interested. Sunni, what you said about the ridicule of the use of visual language is very interesting. We haven't seen or heard of such before, so sharing references to this fact would be really instructive.
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I am wondering if the use of visual language is so often missing because the ability to illustrate our thoughts is a difficult skill to acquire, despite its tremendous learning value. When we illustrated pictures 1500 SAT words for our iphone apps (Knowji Vocab), it required an enormous amount of creativity, talent and time and the project took thousands of hours to put together. For instance, how would one go about drawing words like "abstract" or "conception"?
Nov 13 2011: Hi Emmie, I am interested to find this app? It isn't coming up on iPhone, I also know a way how to illustrate the words, the reason is, if you cannot read at all, you find a way!
Nov 14 2011: Hi Maxine: I would love to learn about your solution for illustrating words. Our apps can be found in the app store by searching for "Knowji Vocab". Or you can go to our site at www.knowji.com. My email is email@example.com and I hope to hear from you. Best, Emmie
Ali Royal
Oct 31 2011: What I find interesting is that we are discussing this as we ourselves (Americans) are shifting away from traditional literacy to sharing information visually. I find that as we undergo this shift, subtle yet important ideas are lost. There is value in literature exploring the abstract concepts which give meaning and weight to our words. Therefore, we should integrate visual imagery into society, but continue to maintain robust literacy.
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A picture does indeed speak a thousand words, but we still need to know the words and concepts behind every picture.
Oct 31 2011: Ali, I make a distinction between consumption of visual content and production of it. I believe people should be taught to do both. Intelligently consume visual content and intelligently portray it for their own and others' understanding and analysis.Oct 31 2011: I want to stress that these are not random patterns. There's an evolutionary agreement between all earth dwelling beings, at least, as to what exactly a 'note' is. A single 'note' sets up a pattern of vibration in the airspace it occupies. A combination of notes with a common denominator between them sets up a swirling pattern in the airspace it occupies that is audible to the ear, visible to the brain. Also, color gets involved, inferred by emotional response.
I know this is not your field, but it's the same ranch....it is the arena of perception. Cousins in creation.Oct 31 2011: Was an Art Educator in a public art gallery for 6 years. Focused on this very issue. My take on why it's taken for granted? Because everyone assumes that because they can "look" at things that they can "see" them. Most of us are encouraged to "label" what we look at rather than be truly critical about what it is we "see". We typically have a very tiny vocabulary of terms to describe what it is we do see ...
Another take? We've had a difficult enough time trying to promote the concept and importance of full literacy (reading & writing) to be functional in today's society and we still haven't managed to include everyone. To suggest that visual literacy is a "must" is going to be a very hard sell.. unless we can prove the shortcomings of not doing so .. the cost of it to society... This simply points out the need for more research on the topic.
How to overcome the problem?
First .. use opportunities to increase public awareness of the issue .. and what's at stake as a result of having someone who is not"visually literate". The whole Gallery, with its Art Education community would seem to be a likely starting place for organizing and lobbying for this..
Second the focus of that awareness should be on noting the cost of having that limited vocabulary. I'd suggest that we use the analogy of reading to help here. If we had the same limited vocabulary for reading books.. we'd also be limited in the number of books we could read .. and the extent to which we could understand the concepts presented in them .. and in understanding the world around us. I've found that for most people, the number of words used to describe visual objects or events is extremely limited .. and to complicate matters further.. with few opportunities to learn how to expand and practice that vocabulary.
Third, get the research that's needed to know the true extent of people's visual vocabulary and detail the opportunities lost by it.
Oct 31 2011: I think you're right, we'll need to prove the cost.
On a related note, I recently learned of a lawyer-turned-art-historian who began a program to teach police detectives and other law enforcement first responders how to articulate what they see better. She found that if these professionals didn't feel comfortable describing what they saw, often the information would go unexpressed. Crimes are solved based on tiny details that require precise observation. http://aop.artfulperception.com/
Other times it's not so clear cut, but hopefully more research will bear out the importance of not only being able to communicate with visuals, but articulate what we see in them.Oct 31 2011: James, fantastic comment, thank you. My responses:
First, visual literacy can actually be used to teach verbal literacy which, as you rightfully pointed out, is a problem in itself. I think that we may be missing an opportunity to use instinctive visual language as a gateway to teaching all kinds of other fundamentals kills.
Second, calculating the cost of this illiteracy is so challenging to do. I can point to our declining scores on the Torrance Test as some evidence, but the request to show the cost is like requesting to show the cost of not being able to read. It is preposterously enormous. There are numerous other studies of declining ability (innovation, problem-solving, etc.) but I think your metaphor is one of the most powerful approaches to igniting people's concern and action. I will always compile research-based evidence to make the case, but the anecdotes and stories are what seem to move people to action.
Last, "looking" versus "seeing." Two entirely different animals indeed. Thank you so much for your work as an Art Educator.Oct 31 2011: With regards to the size of vocabulary, the average person uses 2000 words that encompass 95% of spoken communication. A well-educated native English speaker should have a vocabulary size of about 20,000 words by the time they are in college. I believe most people have a significantly smaller vocabulary than that – particularly given that 50% of American adults can't read at an 8th grade level.Oct 31 2011: Sunni, do you ever think that we can build a lexicon of images which are cross referenced with words and used much like fonts, where you can either write a word or draw an image and simply switch between literary and visual fonts? Simply a different way at looking at the same information?
Perhaps if people had the same comfort that spell check gave them, they would draw more. That's what we need, a visual spell check
Oct 31 2011: Are you speaking of ideographs, as we see in written Chinese?
Oct 31 2011: No, it really has to be accessible...was simply dreaming of having a "Visual" option under Google Translator, to or from any other language.Oct 31 2011: A visual auto-correct, hilarious! My first concern would be that it would start to homogenize visual representations, which scares me. But regarding a lexicon, I do have my own "graphic vocabulary", pieces of which I use to quickly convey something people are describing in a conversation. I encourage all students of visual literacy to start to develop their own lexicon for the purposes of rapid sketching or prototyping. There are books available for this purpose as well and Google Image search doesn't hurt to see what the collective societal metaphors are.
Oliver Kuy
Oct 31 2011: WHY: Maybe because it is regarded as "caveman like" and when early colonizers thought of it as uncivilized.
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WHAT CAN WE DO: Listen and draw more. Read and write less.
Oct 31 2011: Hmmm...maybe we can blame the Puritans...prioritizing reading the Bible versus seeing/sensing the world (and inviting temptation via the eyes)? That would be my armchair anthropologist guess.
Or maybe back to the Enlightenment and it's favor of reason...or the Renaissance perhaps...
Oliver Kuy
Oct 31 2011: They forgot about how effective story telling is especially with pictures.
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Meditating on the Bible is a very creative process and definitely a right brain function just like doodling, drawing, and sketching.
Oct 31 2011: True. Thinking of cathedral stained glass panels...Oct 31 2011: There is definitely a bias against visual language (a phenomenon I'm still researching) and yes, I think much of that bias was a result of the construction and distribution of written language. Being able to read and write was often a function of one's class in society, so the "peasants" relied on pictures and the intelligentsia had "evolved." But moving away from images and toward words is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. They're BOTH incredibly valuable and they serve different functions. I want to live in a society that honors as much of human intelligence (emotional and intellectual) as is available to us.
Oct 31 2011: Now that you have brought up the issue of literature, I am thinking of the wonderful invention of moveable type, and how much easier printing became. Have you tracked a decline in visual representations that corresponds to the use of moveable type and the movement away from wood block prints? Today, of course, as in this conversation, we type. My own illiteracy prevents me from using a drawing. However, the computer I type on is perfectly capable of transmitting and printing drawings.Oct 31 2011: You may want to consider personality profiles because I've observed that most people with dominant personalities prefer to read and write.Oct 31 2011: I don't believe there is a bias against visual language. What I think is missing is the real-time unfolding of a line, a shape, an arrow, a bubble, a series of dots, a squaring, etc. that should accompany the drawing or illustration. Technology isn't there yet.Oct 31 2011: It's silly because we are becoming a visual learning culture. With the introduction of phones, computers, tv, and technology, our form of learning is being steered more towards visual information processing, as well as auditory. But the visual representation has to be intact first for most people to even be receptive. People aren't whispering at the dinner table anymore, or passing notes. No, they are sending texts and videos and images to one another. The education system is snub-nosed and arrogant, out-dated and slow to recognize incoming trends, and they are failing us. More concerned with their unions and political prioritization than the actual quality of the education they are giving our children. And, because of their out-dated methods, they are not giving two-thirds of our children a chance. How dare they tell our children to get with it when it is them that are failing to recognize the innate capacities these children have to learn in today's day in age. Their lack of receptiveness makes me sad, and it makes me sick. Without giving these children opportunities for alternative method problem solving and information portrayal, you are giving them and our nation nothing for the progress of tomorrow.
Oct 31 2011: Less than 5 minutes ago: We are definitely moving at hyper-speed to visual consumption of content. My concern is that most children and adults don't know how to produce that content visually. We have always been visual creatures (try walking into a room with your eyes closed) but we are lacking any system by which we get better at creating, analyzing, and displaying information visually.
Oct 31 2011: I think we could look towards our most current example/resource: Advertising. With an intensive study on it's origin and tactics, I believe a small crack in a big door will be opened.
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Nov 3 2011: i think we favor words over images because words allow precision far more than images which can be illustrative and be inspirational, but lack the rigor and precision of words and numbers. Can we "agree" on what a painting "means"? No, and thats the mystical attraction of imagery. Words and numbers allow us to engineer solutions that directly effect survival and the primary measures of quality of life. I find the increase in visual communication to be dumbing down children who are captivated by moving pictures but who cannot construct an argument.
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Did you do a TED Talk or a TED draw? your pictures hold the inspiration for me but the meaning, for me, is encoded in words. I am a big fan of your work :)
Nov 4 2011: What if kids don't want to argue? What if they just want to share? What if being "dumbed down" is the state of dualistic debate and arguments?Nov 2 2011: Quote: "The education system is snub-nosed and arrogant, out-dated and slow to recognize incoming trends, and they are failing us. More concerned with their unions and political prioritization than the actual quality of the education they are giving our children...Their lack of receptiveness makes me sad, and it makes me sick."
As an educator, I simply do not recognise this grossly inaccurate caricature you are painting here (if I may use a relevant metaphor!). If you are really interested in winning over others to the benefits of visuals (as I, again as a educator, most definitely am), then let me suggest that this overly generalised slandering of those involved in education is not the most effective way of doing this. Recognise the (already widespread) good practice; gracefully and passionately critique the less effective practice, and build from there.
Nov 2 2011: Again Allister, I'm not interested in politics. As an educator I think you should be the one critiquing your practice and going from there. And spreading what you've found in the benefits of visuals.Nov 2 2011: Actually, as an educator, I think you should be finding what is working. And share your knowledge.Nov 2 2011: And be going from there.Oct 31 2011: I think doodles represent patterns that the brain produces to find creative solutions. To 'see' a solution, you have to rearrange the furniture, so to speak, and I believe the patterning underlying speech, drawing and music progressions is the dynamic to which you refer. I'm speaking of patterns that emerge from our brains, not patterns imposed on us.
I use a mental pattern approach when I teach music instead of a written note driven code, and it's like reminding students of something inherent. Instead of teaching them external 'facts', they are remembering something they already know, or recognize. I don't believe it's MIA in adults, but it may be unconscious.
Oct 31 2011: Interesting. Music is definitely an apt parallel for doodling. Much of the discovery that occurs in the process of relaxed visualization is the same discovery that occurs for jazz musicians as they "scat" and for scientists and inventors as they "noodle" with concepts and tools. I think emergent patterns are uncovered while we doodle, yes, but they're also invented in the process. One of the reasons I think this behavior is so universal and relentlessly valuable.Nov 13 2011: I found this article this evening, every day I search for new information on visual literacy in the hope that somebody has realised the importance of it and will have gone on to develop a suitable visual literacy reading programme! As I have found this question and read the answers I thought you may like to hear why it is so crucial. Imagine a child who is so disabled by his dyslexia that sounds mean nothing to him, despite years of specialist teaching and numerous phonic based programmes, his brain does not allow the sounds to blend, imagine recognising c-a -t but not hearing or seeing cat after 7 years of being taught the sounds systematically! Now, put a picture of a cat incorporated into the word, show it 3/4 times and the visual memory remembers the shape and pattern of the symbols! Imagine the importance of finding a visual approach to teach all words/ morphemes in this way, remember the picture/ icon has got to relate to the group of symbols! The obvious picture word cards is not enough in this case! The problem being, there does not seem to be such a programme which is accessible to all, the whole focus in schools is to teach children phonics! Due to this child's illiteracy he cannot lead a normal life, imagine having a high IQ but cannot access the written word, IF only there was an alternative. In fact imagine if there was an alternative and you absolutely knew 100% it would work and this child could learn in a different way using a visual literacy programme but due to years of failure and the fact he is to far behind, he and everybody involved in his education had given up on him! Unfortunately, this story is true and we will keep searching in the hope that soon, somebody in education will want to see the whole picture of illiteracy in children and adults and want to do something different to help. I have through research and desperation found a way to develop a programme but time and ability does not allow me to do so.Any suggestions? Yes please.Nov 13 2011: I just found a TEDx Waterloo talk that I thiink will be of genuine interest to this group. I hope it is helpful to you. It is a talk by Miriah Meyer - Information Visualization for Scientific Discovery
http://youtu.be/Sua0xDCf8MANov 13 2011: and yet the vsiuals live on in our minds...the day the towers no longer existed, the man walking on the moon, the convertible driving on a dallas street, the tanks on tiananmen square, the wall coming down....Nov 10 2011: Do you not think it is deeply linked to the greater difficulty (for many in these establishments) to objectively assess progress and capability in visual areas? Equally, perhaps it is the stereotype of value of certain skills within business?Nov 9 2011: With so much of the world even in developed societies still illiterate, visual literacy can feel as though it is primative or preliterate. It is not of course, but until we have become secure in our literacy, it might feel that way.
I think people have worried so much about raising literacy that we have neglected to just communicate any and every way we can. Many times it is more effective to communicate in visual imagery. This TEDx talk, recently featured on TED because it is so excellent addresses clarity of communication and it reminded me of your question.
http://youtu.be/Tlt47diDnHUNov 8 2011: Promote comic books for adults.Nov 8 2011: The power of visual communication is that it triggers an emotional response almost immediately. Emotion is the key to real learning and stimulating commitment to action.
As a business consultant, I've had the good fortune to put this insight to good use. I integrate a comprehensive suite of visual tools to engage teams in creative thinking and action planning. Using pictures torn out of magazines to form a collage of customer experiences. Filling giant, concentric circles with colourful sticky notes to represent lifecycle stages. Building operational solutions out of household items. Using metaphors as a visual device to establish hardcore corporate objectives. Plus dozens of other visual techniques.
What I've discovered from working with individuals, small and large groups of people, in every type of industry, is that we all share the ability to communicate quickly, efficiently and most important, inspirationally using visuals. Whiteboards, flip charts and sticky notes, even napkins during lunch, provide the canvas to share ideas and spark new ones. It's really amazing how a mind map can provoke even the most linear individuals in the room to "see" the concept forming and triggering them to add incredible value by building the idea.
More and more schools are equipping classrooms with smart boards, which is an awesome tool for creating, building and interacting with ideas in a very visual way. Companies are hiring consultants who bring a process for different thinking using techniques like the ones I described. Infographics are turning dry data into exciting concepts. The inclination to display and comprehend complex information in visual formats does not disappear with childhood. We only need a little stimulation to get us right back there, and I see it happening all around us.Nov 8 2011: I think something have to be done to preserve this cause - i think technology have something it has contribute negatively to this...
Nov 9 2011: Using a stick in the sand to draw is free. Purchasing a tool or piece of technology is costly. To post this message involves owning a computer, an internet connection, and an electric bill. Plus all of the people and companies involved to make it happen. Artists end up using what is available to work with like a free ball point pen from TD bank and a napkin or two from the diner where you can get a cheap cup of coffee.Nov 7 2011: Drawing is just the manifestation of deeper things.
When we dont have yet developed the word, our natural way is drawing ... we us our conceptual natural skils.
We grow, achieve the word (talk, write, read) then our capabilities are enhanced by a new way to see our world: the abstract thinking. We have to loose our first thets to loose our drawing natural capabilities when our brain separates in two well defined hemispheres. So on, we loose also our natural hability to learn other lenguages....and worst, our natural way to ashtonishment begin to close the door. (I'm sure that here at TED theres a lot of brain experts to be guided in this misterys.)
As Picasso said, All childrens born artists.Nov 5 2011: I am an artist myself…a wife of an artist, a daughter of an artist and a mom of an artist, in fact a 5 year old artist.
I let my son believe he is an artist and not just a child who might grow up to be one. He is extremely good with his expressions. He is very good at learning things. Art enables him to create and retain information. I am doing research on visual note taking as well as art in education as a need to improvise my website, http://www.littlesketchers.com. As a parent of an artist, I have always felt the need to cherish and document his art. This need took the shape of this website. I am constantly improving it.
My son has now started 'making' his own 'books' that he illustrates with stories, that he tells me, and makes me write next to his drawings.
This is the power of doodling and sketching. It empowers. It is amazing!!

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High speed trains are important for long haul travel, but more efficient rail systems are also needed in cities for general commuters. With precisely that in mind, Francisco Lupin designed this sleek concept train for Bombardier as part of the YouRail Train Interior Design Contest and their line of Eco4 energy saving trains. Lupin's train is designed for economy commuters within a city and completely rethinks the interior of public transportation. The train is solar powered, made of lightweight materials and utilizes MagLev technology for a fast and energy efficient train.
Lupin's super sleek concept is centered around redesigning the interior of trains, but includes a host of upgrades that go beyond the cosmetic. A long bench of seats runs down the middle of the train with floor to ceiling transparent windows and passengers can enter and exit on either side of the eco train and can simply press a button to signal their stop. A projector displays information such as the weather, time or advertisements onto the windows on either side.
Solar panels mounted on the top of the train provide power to help run it, as well as provide lighting and charging stations inside for passengers. The solar panels are mounted so they can automatically rotate in order to maximize solar access. MagLev technology would be utilized for a faster, smoother and more efficient train, while an automatic pilot system guides the train via computer eliminating the need for an operator.
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June 16, 2010 at 6:02 pm
It is ideas like this that hold us back.
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I agree with Myrtle10 – let's see where this train takes us. It's amazing what we can do these days! All in an effort to help make the environment a great place for our children and their children.
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Steel wheel on steel rail has rolling friction that is lower than the energy needed for magnetic levitation. The energy needed to run a train is due to to air resistance — and, in the case for public transit, the constant acceleration and deceleration. With regenerative breaking, which works well for steel rails, can recapture the energy expended during acceleration when breaking.
At the same time, the nice thing about using an electrified rail system is that you only need an electro motor on board, and the power can be generated elsewhere more efficiently.
So this concept, if it would work at all, is unrealistic, and sounds like a bunch of greenwashing. Steel rails are cheaper/better than magnetic levitation, and power should be generated outside the train. At the same time, displaying information for every user is quite a waste of energy.


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Is the fiscal cliff the first in a never ending series of crises facing America?
Can we really address the fiscal cliff without addressing our structural problems? We have a ballooning deficit that will result in a very real loss of discretionary spending by the middle and lower classes as more money goes to pay the interest on the debt. If our credit rating drops the cost of borrowing will increase dramatically exacerbating the situation.
More advanced medical procedures will result in a greater strain on Medicare and a higher percentage of our income going to health care---meanwhile Medicare is going bankrupt; we must either raise taxes, curb benefits or balloon the deficit. Add to this the grey "tsunami" rampant autism and obesity and healthcare costs can only rise dramatically.
Cheap carbon fuels, coal and natural gas will add to climate change. Water battles between states are apt to increase as population increases but the water doesn't.
A nuclear Iran, a rising China, and the persistent threat of terrorism will sap our resources and our will.
A rise in the standard of living will mean the poor will want more "stuff" straining everything from our ocean bounty to a scarcity of rare earth elements. Battles both military and economic may ensue over them.
The pension time bomb has already gone off in Illinois and will be a huge problem for localities in the coming years. Your parents guaranteed payouts they never had to pay for. Unlike Social Security many pension funds are either bankrupt or will require a substantial input from localities resulting in a substantial loss of services.
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Nov 11 2012: They will reach a compromise after some saber rattling.
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The debt is 16 trillion if the interest rate goes to 5% the debt service will go from 250 billion a year to 750 billion a year. The government takes in 2.5 trillion in revenue so about 30% would go to just interest on the debt. This would be a huge impact.
The last of the baby boomers are reaching the 55 yr bracket which means that they will quit spending.
This also means the unfunded liabilities (SS and Medicare) from the baby boomers are going to grow the debt much more than the 16 trillion dollars.
The huge implications of the QE's is going to create inflation some way some how.
Farmers are getting old there may be less food production.
Technology may change some of this regarding medical as the medical may become cheaper as in the case of insulin production or mri or genetic engineering. But this will come to grinding halt because of mandated healthcare.
I would predict something on the order of Argentina or Russia for the future preceded by riots and then a dystopian phase. The guy at the wheel is incompetent as was his predecessor as are we but that is the way it is and is not likely to change.
Nov 11 2012: Here is my scenario: there will be a crisis, kind of tough, it will burn some people's a**es, but then there will be a rebound. And it is the rebound I fear the most as it will be then that all that money printed will surface. Nothing will save the world then.
Sadly, only the United States, the biggest economy in the World, can change or at least mittigate the coming catastrophe.
I say sadly, because the first thing to do should be to increase the savings rate. The best way to do it is to introduce a fully-funded pension scheme. Will, however, president Obama understand this? Judging by his ambition to implement Obamacare he will not.
So, what are we to do, Pat?
Let's pray they will find some room for us in the Venus Project.
Nov 12 2012: To quote one of the Star Trek movies, one of the Klingon junior officers asking his captain what do we do now sir, as the ship is taking severe damage because of some egregious errors, the captain replies now we die.
It will be either be a dystopian 1984 or Mad Max either way I recommend investing in can goods and firearms. By the time the shit really hits the fan most people will exit the metropolis areas which will be 2yr on the inside and 10 yr on the outside. If you think I'm being dramatic I would recommend getting your head out of your ass and looking around.Nov 11 2012: Hi Pat,
I think one of the biggest upcoming issues below the radar is the drop in our credit rating; the way this should be presented to the American public is to take a typical family of four earning $40,000/year and ask, "How much discretionary income will you have left over if your family has to pay $8000/year to pay interest on the debt?"Nov 11 2012: Hi Pat,
What is staggering is how much money has been printed in the past few years by every country. The total amount of money printed in the past 5 years is several trillion dollars. When will hyperinflation occur? We have had deflation for awhile, when does hyperinflation replace deflation?
Nov 11 2012: The total amount of monetary wealth (which is the value placed on existing property world in the world) amounts to over $200 trillion, expanding that with a few trillion more barely keeps up with inflation on a global scale though of course local currencies may see high inflation. All this extra money seems to be mainly making the rich of the world richer instead of pumping a lot of money into the consumer markets (which would cause high inflation), in other words there has been runaway inflation in the price of gold and superyachts, not bread and furniture.Nov 11 2012: I did a thread on that a while back. I think, I don't know, what is happening is that it is being spent on buying bad mortgage debt from Freddy and Fanny and big banks . This way the money never goes to main street.Nov 12 2012: pat gilbert wrote:
"They will reach a compromise after some saber rattling.
The debt is 16 trillion if the interest rate goes to 5% the debt service will go from 250 billion a year to 750 billion a year. The government takes in 2.5 trillion in revenue so about 30% would go to just interest on the debt. This would be a huge impact."
Yes, indeed, there will be a compromise. We can all see there will be cuts to the military, the troops will be pulled out from Afghanistan (saves $90 billion per year), the tax cuts for the rich will be left to expire, taxes on dividends and capital gains will go up and Obamacare will be amended to cut spending on health care more, unemployment benefit extensions will be eliminated, farm and energy subsidies and the mortgage interest deduction will be eliminated, the corporate tax rates will go down, but loopholes will be closed (resulting in more revenue), rich seniors won't get medicare anymore, etc... But it probably still won't be enough to get a balanced budget, you Americans are in for a world of hurt...
I also wish to add that the US wastes 6% of GDP on health care compared to other developed countries, also cutting $100 billion per year from the military would bring it back to the 3% of GDP level it was in 2000 and still leave it the most powerful military in the world, even staying aheaf of China for many years.
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Nov 12 2012: Never ending? Yes. First? No.
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Nov 11 2012: It is not the first, just the next.
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It seems to me that history is a never ending series of crises.
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Nov 11 2012: All of America's "special" problems are entirely self-created. There are so many country out there with similar or higher standard of living and all the same freedoms that do not suffer from abject economic inequality and crushing debts (both personal and state) and deficits.
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There are real problems having to do with climate change and diminshing natural resources, but all other countries have those problems too.
"A nuclear Iran, a rising China, and the persistent threat of terrorism will sap our resources and our will."
These are non-issues, neither Iran nor China will ever attack the United States and the only way terrorists can cause damage is by tricking America into racking up debt by wasting money on more "security" agencies.
Nov 11 2012: If Israel bombs the Iranian nuclear sites, America, as a staunch ally of Israel, will undoubtedly respond to any Iranian response with either direct or covert military support. China will push back against the US diplomatically, economically and may even tangle with us in the South China Sea. If Taiwan ever goes to War with Mainland China, we could, indeed, be dragged into the conflict.
You are absolutely right about wasting money on security issues. Obesity, smoking, heart disease and cancer will vastly exceed any economic and national security threat that terrorists pose to our nation.
I can not agree with you about "so many countries out there with similar or higher standards of living" DO suffer even more than we do. Have you been following the European debt crisis? Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and even Germany is feeling the heat of their financial crisis. Japan is in worse shape than we are. Even the economy of China is slowing. The world wide recession affects every developed nation in a negative way.
Nov 11 2012: Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Australia, Canada and many others are doing just peachy compared to the United States and Greece (two countries where citizens are not mature enough to pay taxes for the services they wish to receive).
"If Israel bombs the Iranian nuclear sites, America, as a staunch ally of Israel, will undoubtedly respond to any Iranian response with either direct or covert military support. China will push back against the US diplomatically, economically and may even tangle with us in the South China Sea. If Taiwan ever goes to War with Mainland China, we could, indeed, be dragged into the conflict."
The United States does not have to support Israel in all things, getting involved in a war with Iran is a choice because Iran will never attack the US itself (btw, it won't attack Israel either, unless Israel attack first). Why the hell would Taiwan ever be so stupid as to go to war with China and why would the US risk a nuclear war by getting involved in a war between Taiwan and China? Besides, if American politicians stopped calling Europeans and Canadians lazy welfare moochers then together with Japan a block could be formed that could keep China at bay indefinitely.Nov 11 2012: I agree with Barry. There have been recessions, depressions, scandals, and cataclysmic natural events through out history. Mankind has rebounded. At the start of Obama's first term there was a pretty big crisis.
The current notion of pay without work, at ANY age might change.
The current notion about quality of life entitlements might change.
Hard work, deferred gratification, proactive personal finance decisions, personal financial responsibility, personal financial accountability, and striving to be the best at whatever you do through training and learning should all retain value.
Taking care of your family is an essential responsibility. Taking care of your community and fellow-man, and implied responsibility of the strong.
There are some concepts that might also continue to be in favor:
1) Risk/rewards in the business world
2) reduced dependence on utilities, medical services, and personal assistance should be rewarded with a smaller contribution to common services.
3) Common services need to consider Life-cycle costs rather than politically drive short-term problem solving
4) Extreme risk takers, parasitic financial, legal, insurance, or similar activities should be De-motivated by regulation.
5) The distinction between natural human conditions and events, cause and effect of personal choices, and the progression of life needs to be realized. No one should have the quality of their natural life changed by government or corporate greed. The decisions of individuals, families, or charities to improve quality of life through extraordinary medical means is a choice, not a right. The burden of improving the overall welfare of citizens should be a goal for government and the medical profession, not a duty that must be enforced like a law. Enslaving the nation to accomplish this goal goes against the free will of all. Protect public health, help those you can, but distribution of wealth to alleviate personal suffering is a personal and private decision.Nov 11 2012: I also, as did Pat, believe that the fiscal cliff will be resolved but do not believe that it will stop a recession. Our position in the world is in serious trouble rampant spending, weakened economy, shift to socialism with deminishing funds avaliable to support the programs, some have expressed the national debit will rise to 20 trillion by next year, the White House continuing to bypass Congress, through the use of Executive Orders, with unfunded programs like the White House Rural Sustainability Act (basically UN article 21) which has committed 25 agencies to suppot this Act, etc ...
Add to the mix that there is a whole sale change of Cabnet members, directors, and heads of agencies taking place. Even our staunchest allies are asking questions of the US. With our credit rating down to aa- the confidence of the capital investors is missing. The small businesses are in jeaporody. The taxing, health care requirements, and tons of policy changes will set all businesses back. The federal requirement to the states are causing serious concerns and 28 states have stated that they are at or near bankruptcy.
The inability of the parties to work together is made worse by the Administration stating that he will not sign anything that does not include a extreme tax on the wealthy. At what point should the goal be to put people back to work. Berneke at the Fed has stated that he will not seek another term as the Chairman. However, as Japan learned the hard way once you enter into the QE world it is almost impossible to leave.
I have not either seen or heard anything that inspires me to believe that the economy is being addressed, or that spending will cease, or increases in government size will slow down. If none of these are addressed what are the chances of recovery?
Summary: in my opinion .. the fisical cliff is the least of our worries.
Nov 12 2012: "some have expressed the national debit will rise to 20 trillion by next year"
You're saying the deficit would go from $1.1 trillion (the lowest amount in 4 years) to $4 trillion in one year even though revenue is projected to rise? What have you been smoking?
Nov 12 2012: First I want to express that your replies often put me off but I find it insulting that you insuate that I smoke anything. I will only once ask you that you reply civilly.
There is some question if revenue will rise. Small businesses are closing rapidly and the advent of Obama care could cause the close or at least a reduction in force of many corporations. The implementation of Cap and Trade in the power industry could force the closing of many power plants around the US thus more unemployment with the effect of causing the rise in cost of power.
There is a strong likelyhood that we will enter a depression by early January and at some point the actions of the fed will cause inflation. I am not an economist and just read opinions. I have not read any opinions of anyone who believes that the national debit will maintain at 16 trillion or deminish. Investment capital has all but vanished for lack of confidence.
I have not heard of the expectation of the revenue being projected to rise.
These are things I have read ... differing arguments are just as valid to the uninitiated such as me. So I am willing to listen to your argument of growth.
Nov 14 2012: Just do the math: a $4 trillion deficit would almost double federal expenditure in one year, it's a completely ridiculous notion. At the worst point of the recession the deficit was $1.5 trillion.Nov 12 2012: I think the best thing the US could do is try to encourage the use of other currencies in international trade. Then the value of the US dollar could actually hinge on the domestic situation rather than commodity trading. You get a better landing if you ease yourself down slowly. Desperately holding on until your have no energy left just means you fall all the way from the top. Just like desperately propping up mortgages that should've been allowed to fail one at a time just mean they drag everything down when the fall comes.
Nov 12 2012: I would not be surprised if Bernanke and the other central banks wants to issue a world wide currency. This way they could buy the debt with the new currency. Of course they would buy the dollar at whatever inflated value it has at the time which would mean wealth would instantly disappear and be finalized as the fed would no longer have a printing press.Nov 11 2012: Germans may stop bailing out broke countries due to internal politics---there is no guarantee that Germany will be in better shape finanically than America if other European Nations go broke. Check out the fate of Finland; they may leave the Eurozone if there is a rescue but no growth. The IMF has warned that Sweden's economic health tied to Europe is in danger.The Netherlands faces an aging population that will stress their long-term financial health. Denmark faces long-term structural problems because of their aging population. Their GDP is so slow that their Government is contemplating a modest stimulus package. If their economy was doing so well, why do they need a stimulus package? Austria is doing well but is tied to the Eurozone. It is dicey to predict any nation tied to the Eurozone and all their broke nations will do well long term.
Australia is doing well.
Taiwan will not go to war against Mainland China but the latter may try to annex Taiwan. Israel will not allow a nuclear Iran, and, for sure, will attack Iran if they do not voluntarily end their nuclear ambitions. Iran will either counterattack directly or through their proxies dragging us into the conflict one way or another.
Nov 11 2012: "Germans may stop bailing out broke countries due to internal politics---there is no guarantee [...]"
Those are all hypotheticals, right now those countries are doing better than the US despite having an older population and a euro-crisis to contend with.
"Taiwan will not go to war against Mainland China but the latter may try to annex Taiwan."
So? Taiwan is not a part of the US.
"Israel will not allow a nuclear Iran, and, for sure, will attack Iran if they do not voluntarily end their nuclear ambitions. Iran will either counterattack directly or through their proxies"
That's Israel's problem.
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