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no topic as yet about learning management. Knowledge management regarding learning
is simple. I learn to learn and I can learn wrongly because I cannot understand the
signals that are coming to me and I am not putting the right weight. I believe we have to
keep our minds open in order to evolve the way we learn. Learning management I can
do in an enterprise. It is difficult, but I can do it. I can do a little bit in school, if the
pupils stay for at least a couple of years. I can do this at home of course with my
children, because when they grow up, if they fail, I have failed. At a national level, it is a
cultural exchange. I do not know about any political measures. I am not an economist. I
am in enterprise. Now, if all enterprises do this, of course you will have a critical mass,
but this is difficult because you would need an understanding of the leaders and normally
they are competitors. We could discuss how to do learning management and its
techniques. Some things are already known but many things are yet to be discovered and
I am pretty sure that in the next few years we will have information systems, information
management and knowledge management. We will have learning management, I am
sure.
Handy : I want to identify what I think is a risk, as not only Portugal but the rest of
the world goes more and more into the Internet. We see obviously a lower cost use of the
medium which also invites rogue actors to be able to take advantages of those areas if we
do not have all kinds of security devices. Even if we do I think we will see a greater
proliferation of drug trafficking over the Internet, possibly types of pornography or other
criminal elements and illegal mob activity via the networks, especially if countries act
complacently.
Amaral : I suppose it is like creating nuclear energy; how do you prevent it from
being badly used? It is yet another tool that may be good or bad for us. Nevertheless it
will shape our world, but to be sure that it will be shaped correctly is very difficult. I do
not know. I am not God. Our society right now will be very different in twenty years'
time and the change will be much deeper than it was twenty years before.
Handy : I think there could be some type of multinational indications in warning
centres that look at all kinds of trends in the open market, without intruding into
privacies, but again using the intelligence analyses. We should be able to pinpoint the
rogue actors and figure out the right type of response. Easier said than done, but I think
that is the step in the right direction.
Amaral : Easier said than done because as a culture we are used to being more or less
against each other. The idea that we can live in peace is very recent. In 13,000 years
there have been perhaps two hundred years where some part of the world's population
has believed that it was possible to live in peace. For the remaining 12,800 years
everybody had in their minds that we may not be able to live in peace. War is normal.
That is how we have lived. Now to be able to do something that you agree upon in order
to diminish this aggression is not war, but a difference in thinking. I am being a little
philosophical, but this would mean that every actor believes that it is a good thing to be
at peace and together diminish these activities. This is the first part that is difficult to
achieve because every person is thinking of what he or she is going to gain. This is our
initial mindset, mainly in Europe. Europe is still divided. You have the United States,
you have other countries, you have terrorism. Being able to be multinational would