20 mars 2018

Triathlon and “The Fifth Generation”


The Fifth Generation is called in computer science, jet fighters and I can see the Fifth Generation in our Team Oaxaca.  This comes after one of our team members won the North American Junior Championship last week.  We have noticed the changes and the evolution to the Fifth Generation as a team.  Regarding jet fighters:
Both of the fifth-generation fighters currently in operation are American. The Air Force’s twin-engine F-22 air-superiority fighter built by Lockheed Martin and Boeing came first, followed by the single-engine F-35 Lightning II for which Lockheed Martin is prime contractor. Much of the technology on the F-35 was refined from the F-22, but because the F-35 will replace most of the Cold War tactical aircraft of the Air Force, the Navy and the Marines — plus those of at least a dozen allies — I’m going to focus on what makes F-35 special.

Most observers would probably begin their description of the multi-role F-35 by saying that it is stealthy, meaning it incorporates “low-observable” technologies designed to foil enemy detection and tracking. No doubt about it, stealth is a defining feature of fifth-gen fighters. But perhaps a more basic feature is that the low observables and other on-board innovations are integrated – in other words, the airframe was conceived from day one to optimize stealth and other cutting-edge technologies by rigorously trading off design features.

When you consider all the novel features found in an F-35 fighter, it isn’t hard to grasp why the “fifth-generation” designation is warranted. The planes may look similar to Cold War fighters, but they perform six times better in air-to-air engagements, five times better in striking surface targets, and four times better in evading enemy air defenses when compared with the best-equipped fourth-gen planes. Fifth-generation fighters are every bit as much a revolution in air warfare as the advent of jet engines was.
Regarding computers:
The phrase “Fifth Generation” refers to stages in the evolution of computer technology. The first generation of computers was based on vacuum tube technology; the second, on the transistor; the third on the integrated circuit, which combined many transistors on a single circuit board; the fourth, on microprocessor chips with large-scale integration (LSI) and very large-scale integration (VLSI) of the components. Each “generation” saw an increase in speed and computing power, together with a reduction in size and cost.
Computers that in 1960 filled entire rooms and could only be afforded by government, industry and universities can now be matched by desk-top and portable models that are affordable to the consumer. Between the years 1946 and 1960, the number of computers increased from zero to ten thousand; between 1960 and 1980, the number of computers exploded from ten thousand to ten million, and continues to expand at a phenomenal rate.[5]
The “Fifth Generation” will see the development of artificial intelligence,“computers that think.” This means not merely another quantitative improvement in computing technology, with all the economic implications which that has entailed, but a new qualitative leap for human civilization and the world economy.
Regarding leadership:
This next generation, the fifth generation, of leaders emerging right now must operate on four key principles. These principles are increasingly making teams successful, organizations successful, and each of us successful when we lead. The four principles of fifth generation leaders are clarity, freedom, empathy and results.

Let’s take a moment.  This fifth generation is what the Aztecs called the fifth sun in the creation of the world:

They believed their world had been created and destroyed four times before. During each of the four previous cycles, different gods first governed the earth through a dominant element and then destroyed it. These worlds were called suns. During the 16th century—and the period in which we still live today—the Aztecs believed that they were living in the "fifth sun", and it would also end in violence at the end of the calendrical cycle.

Improvement has come through learning about education generation after generation.  Communication has also improved generation after generation at the same speed of education.  Clarity has been asked the whole time; they know why they do what they do most of the time and where they stand.  Triathlon was taken as one sport and not as three entities put together. They know what team work is about and see the results because of this work; it is improving.  At least one member made the transition from one generation to the other to pass on the culture achieved from the previous generation. The median speed practicing triathlon has improved generation after generation.  What we have worked on it is in this blog.  It is matter of improving education and encyclopedia, nothing extraordinary, but a lot of work.

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