Study: teens optimistic about innovation

Study: teens optimistic about innovation

Research: minors are optimistic about innovation

Thursday, January 12,200 6 posted: 1616 GMT (0016 HKT)

 

Boston , Mascript usetts (AP )--TeenagersHave some seemingly high expectations about what technology might bring over the nextDecade, According to a new mascript usetts Institute of Technology Study.

Boston, maserjuna (morning)--According to a survey by the Massachusetts Institute of Science and Technology, minors seem to have high expectations for the changes that technology can bring to the next decade.

For example, 33 percent of teens predicted that gasoline-powered cars will go the way of the horse and buggy by 2015. just 16 percent of adults agreed.

For example,33%Expected teenagers2015Fuel cars will be on the road of horses and carriages in the year, only16%The adult agrees ).

Meanwhile, 22 percent of teenagers predicted desktop computers will becomeObsoleteA decade from now, while only 10 percent of adults agreed.

At the same time,22%Teenagers predict that laptops will become waste products in ten years, only10%Adults agree.

Adults,On the other hand, Were far more certain aboutDemiseOfLandlineTelephone by 2015 (45 percent made that prediction) than teenagers (17 percent ).

However, adults are far more certain than minors.2015Annual cable calls will be phased out (45%Adults do this prediction, minor only17%).

The teens queried also said newExceptions--Over any time frame,Not necessarily by 2015 -- can solve such global problems as unclean water (91 percent), hunger (89 percent), disease (88 percent) and pollution (84 percent ). adults were less optimistic about hunger, with 77 percent saying technology will play an important role.

The Minors under investigation also believe that the new technology was invented.-Beyond any previous period, do not wait2015Has been able to solve many global problems such as sewage problems (91%), Hunger (89%), Disease (88%) And pollution (84%). Adults are not so optimistic about hunger.77%Technology will play an important role.

Merton Flemings, who heads the lemelson-mit program that conducting the survey, said he was encouraged that teenagers believe science and technology may hold answers to our biggest issues.

Merton FlemingsTo studyLemelson-Lead of the MIT project team (so many)We believe that technology is the answer to the biggest problem we face.Merton FlemingsI am very encouraged.

"It's the young people who are going to have to do it," he said.

He said, "This is incumbent on minors ".

But he also wonders whether enough of today's teens are in position to invent such solutions,NotingThat engineering was teens 'third-mostAttractiveCareer Choice, picked by 14 percent as the field that most interested them -- and just 4 percent of girls. Only 9 percent of all teens said they were leaning toward science.

But he still wants to know if there are enough teenagers today who are the third most attractive career choice for teenagers to invent these solutions,14%Select engineers as the areas of interest. Only4%Girl. Only9%Teenagers said they would work toward scientific research.

The top two career choices: Arts and medicine, each picked by 17 percent of the kids surveyed.

The first two occupations are art and medicine, and the teenagers surveyed have their own17%Select this2.

The lemelson-mit program, which focuses on encouraging young people to pursue innovation,CommissionedIts "partition tion Index" in November, interviewing 500 teens and 1,030 adultsNationwide. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 4 percentage points for teens and 3 for adults.

Focus on rewarding young people for invention and innovationLemelson-The MIT project team,11They launched their "innovative index" monthly and interviewed nationwide500Teenagers and1030Adult. The sampling error of teenagers is positive or negative.4%, Adults in3%.

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