Week 4 Reading Reflection

This week's reading related to innovation and the way it can shape industries and the way it can build some pretty interesting things. One of the things that, as I was reading stood out to me as different from anything I expected was the way that creativity can be structured. I usually assume that creativity is often abstract and free and wild at times even. But through the reading I came to understand that there is an actual process to it and how that can be a very structured occurrence. The thinking process itself and all of its parts are what stood out in particular because it helped me visualize a process that is otherwise intangible. One of the more confusing parts of the reading was in my opinion the Areas of Creativity. There were more areas of creativity than I thought possible, and I wonder if maybe they can interlace and overlap. If I were to meet the authors and have the opportunity to ask anything I would probably ask where they think creativity currently stands in comparison to the way it was used in the past. I would also ask where do they see it going, to perhaps a major factor in creation of great companies or something similar?. While not disagreeing with the author at any specific points, this chapter has taught me a lot in terms of insight and conceptual knowledge.

Top 5 World Problems

In this follow up post to my previous list of problems facing the world, I will attempt to gather what I perceive to be the 5 most important issues out of the 10 previously mentioned. These are issues that currently affect the world in a global scale and are coupled with solutions I believe will maximize effectiveness.

1. Financial Instability
2. Nuclear Weaponry
3. War
4. Socioeconomic Disparity
5. Excessive Population Growth

Also below are the solutions to these 5 problems ranked in order of feasibility, that is, how easy and implementable the solutions are.

1. Controlled Strengthening of Weaker Governments
2. Standardized World Market Regulations
3. Nuclear Disarmament
4. Extra-planetary Colonization
5. World Charity Fund

I ranked my problems in the above order because of immediate threat to our global society. I believe that many countries' economies are interdependent on each other, much like the recent China crash rattled markets across Europe and even the U.S. Thus I believe that mishandling our financial markets could very well be a recipe for disaster. Nuclear Weaponry and War follow close behind due to their sporadic nature. It is sometimes very unpredictable but still extremely harmful to our planet and society. Lastly Socioeconomic Disparity and Population Growth are less immediate problems but equally as important.

When it comes to my solutions, they all think on a rather big scale, as I believe that acting big is the only way we can swiftly and decisively end this problems and properly take care of them. I ranked these based on feasibility, which means that Responsible Strengthening of Weak Countries is something that could easily be done by global powers and supranational organizations. My next solutions could be considered far-off what reality really is like, but I stand by the ideas of regulating world markets and removing nuclear armament as a viable choice of actions for countries. Lastly my least feasible solutions are things that still have time to come to occur, as there is no immediate need for planetary colonization or no immediate desire for an international charity fund for emerging countries. Yet I feel these are rather simple solutions only made difficult by governments and politicians' inability to agree on a certain way to solve an issue.

UN Assembly