Get to Heaven Keep the Seven

Everybody wants spirituality. To be a good person means to walk in G-d's ways. How does that translate to reality? The only guidebook to spirituality that has stood the test of time is the Hebrew Bible. The Bible says that the Jews will be a light onto the nations. But if you are not a born Jew, you have to convert, which is not so easy!! If you do convert, it is a lot of work to be a Jew (three times a day prayer, keeping kosher, observing the Sabbath).

This blog will show you how to be Jewish without the work!!

Monday, August 1, 2016

What the Future HOLDS!!!

Rabbi Yehuda Lave

Care For Others Material Concerns

One aspect of caring about people is respecting their property and protecting their money.

It is a kind deed to return lost objects, to give suggestions about how to buy things economically, to prevent damage to possessions, and to prevent needless waste.

In other words, caring for the material and financial concerns of others is a matter of your own spirituality!

Love Yehuda Lave

Amazing news that never made headlines here. Jerusalem youth musicians win first prize.

Jerusalem Conservatory Hassadna Wind Ensemble Wins First Prize in Vienna

The Jerusalem Foundation would like to congratulate Jerusalem Conservatory Hassadna on winning the Symphonic Band competition at the Summa Cum Laude musical festival in Vienna, which attracted an audience of 3,000 people from around the world, and featured performances by 26 different bands and ensembles. Only the three best wind ensembles made it to the final round.

 The Conservatory's wind ensemble, under the guidance of conductor Sagit Mazaz and director Ronit Berman, has 50 young students aged 13-18. The students were very excited to take part in the competition, which included a chance to perform in Vienna's famous Muskverein hall and to meet their competitors: two extremely talented wind ensembles from Japan.

The moment that the students found out they had won was truly indescribable.

 The next evening, the Conservatory's ensemble performed with their fellow first-prize winners to a standing ovation from the packed hall. The Jerusalem Foundation would like to applaud these talented young musicians, and is proud to support Hassadna, which fosters the next generation of musicians who will lay the foundations for Jerusalem's cultural future

Following Maimonides--the interaction of science and torah

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Following-Maimonides-462071#.V5S6IIeF_BY.gmail

Richard Sidey- Expedition photography-Antartica

Watch the heart-warming moment a paralysed chimpanzee walks for first time in six years with the help of a touch-screen

Touch-screen helped this chimpanzee walk again

Researchers of the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan got a male chimp, named Reo, to walk towards a touch screen in return for food.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3675020/Watch-heart-warming-moment-paralysed-chimpanzee-walks-time-six-years-help-touch-screen.html

 

Common chemicals found in plastic bottles, pollution and even makeup are 'damaging babies' brains and lowering their IQs

Common chemicals damage the brains of foetuses and growing children

A University of Illinois report said these widely available chemicals are introduced into people's lives with little or no review of their effects on foetal and child health.

Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3669868/Chemicals-pollution-plastic-bottles-make-damage-brains-foetuses-growing-children-lowering-IQ.html

What's Mine is Mine and What's Yours is Yours - the Opposite of Kindness Rabbi Yitzchak Botton - Ethics of the Fathers: Chapter 5 Mishnah 13 - Kindness

What the future holds

In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide.

Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they got bankrupt.

What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 year - and most people don't see it coming.

Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again?

Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law.

So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a long time, before it became way superiour and got mainstream in only a few short years.

It will now happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.

Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Welcome to the Exponential Age.

Software will disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years...

Uber is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world.
Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties.

Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world.

This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.

In the US, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans.

There will be 90% less lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.

Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 time more accurate than human nurses.

Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans.

In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self driving cars will appear for the public.

Around 2020, the complete industry will start to be disrupted.
You don't want to own a car anymore.

You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination.

You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and can be productive while driving.

Our kids will never get a driver's licence and will never own a car.
It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars for that.
We can transform former parking space into parks. 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide.
We now have one accident every 100,000 km, with autonomous driving that will drop to one accident in 10 million km.
That will save a million lifes each year.

Most car companies might become bankrupt.
Traditional car companies try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.
Engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; they are completely terrified of Tesla.

Insurance companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, the insurance will become 100x cheaper.
Their car insurance business model will disappear.

Real estate will change.
Because if you can work while you commute, people will move further away to live in a more beautiful neighborhood.

Electric cars will become mainstream until 2020.
Cities will be less noisy because all cars will run on electric.

Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Not in Israel. The Electric Co. monopoly will never give up! Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can only now see the impact.
Last year, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil.
The price for solar will drop so much that all coal companies will be out of business by 2025.

With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water.
Desalination now only needs 2kWh per cubic meter.
We don't have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water.
Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as he wants, for nearly no cost.

Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year.
There will be companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with you phone, which takes your retina scan, you blood sample and you breath into it.
It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease.
It will be cheap, so in a few years everyone on this planet will have access to world class medicine, nearly for free. Really? Who is going to pay for the medicine? The doctors? The research?
3D printing: The price of the cheapest 3D printer came down from 18,000$ to 400$within 10 years.
In the same time, it became 100 times faster.
All major shoe companies started 3D printing shoes. Great! Where can we buy one? In our family, we all have big feet and need oversize shoes!

Spare airplane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports.
The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large amout of spare parts they used to have in the past.
At the end of this year, new smartphones will have 3D scanning possibilities.
You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoe at home.
In China, they already 3D printed a complete 6-storey office building.
By 2027, 10% of everything that's being produced will be 3D printed.

Business opportunities: If you think of a niche you want to go in, ask yourself: "in the future, do you think we will have that?" and if the answer is yes, how can you make that happen sooner?
If it doesn't work with your phone, forget the idea.
And any idea designed for success in the 20th century is doomed in to failure in the 21st century.

Work: 70-80% of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years.
QThere will be a lot of new jobs, but it is not clear if there will be enough new jobs in such a small time.

Agriculture: There will be a 100$ agricultural robot in the future.
Farmers in 3rd world countried can then become managers of their field instead of working all days on their fields.
Aeroponics will need much less water.

The first petri dish produced veal is now available and will be cheaper than cow produced veal in 2018. Fich.

Right now, 30% of all agricultural surfaces is used for cows.

Imagine if we don't need that space anymore.

There are several startups who will bring insect protein to the market shortly.

It contains more protein than meat.

It will be labeled as "alternative protein source" (because most people still reject the idea of eating insects). Ain't kosher.

There is an app called "moodies" which can already tell in which mood you are.

Until 2020 there will be apps that can tell by your facial expressions if you are lying.

Imagine a political debate where it's being displayed when they are telling the truth and when not.

Bitcoin will become mainstream this year and might even become the default reserve currency.

Longevity: Right now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year.

Four years ago, the life span used to be 79 years, now it's 80 years.

The increase itself is increasing and by 2036, there will be more that one year increase per year.

So we all might live for a long long time, probably way more than 100. But what will we do with our time? Play with our smartphones, of course!

Education: The cheapest smartphones are already at 10$ in Africa and Asia.

Until 2020, 70% of all humans will own a smartphone.

That means, everyone has the same access to world class education.


Every child can use Khan academy for everything a child learns at school in First World countries.

Already released software in Indonesia and will release it in Arabic, Suaheli and Chinese this Summer, because of an enormous potential.

English app for free, so that children in Africa can become fluent in English within half a year...

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