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"Samsung Plans To Use 100% Renewable Energy by 2020": http://fortune.com/2018/06/15/samsung-renewable-energy-2020/
Pragmatic. This headline soon:
"Samsung plans to stop 'planned obsolescence' practices and re-focus on its post-consumerism, regenerative green tech & human well-being business units by 2025".
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The brewing revolution in "Computational Economics" is backwards & dangerous: The basic premiss: "If we have a 'perfect' simulation of the world, based on *total* surveillance of everything, "we" can optimise economy, society & psychology with A.I's - and all will be better".
"Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism & Democracy for a Just Society" - talk by Glen Weyl (Microsoft) at Google, Moderated by Hal Varian (chief economist at Google)
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Humans are hardwired to tell & listen to stories. Narratives are how we make sense of complex realities & make decisions, given we can never comprehend all "facts". Hence, "Narrative Engineering" (e.g. multi dimensional/modal "story telling") is the foundation of societal change. Narratives eat evidence for breakfast
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Coining a new term: "Reality Detachment Syndrome" (RDS) - A mental illness where patients obsessively use technology to detach their senses from reality. Symptoms related to "Escapism" & "Depersonalization disorder".
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"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance." - Confucius
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“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” — R. Buckminster Fuller
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“In the present state of architectural and environmental design, almost no problem has yet been made to exhibit complexity in such a well-defined way that it actually requires the use of a computer. The effort to state a problem in such a way that a computer can be used to solve it will distort your view of the problem. It will allow you to consider only those aspects of the problem which can be encoded—and in many cases these are the most trivial and the least relevant aspects.” - Christopher Alexander (1965)
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1st principle of the Technetronic Society: "Something ought to be done because it is technically possible to do it."
E.g: If it is possible to build nuclear weapons, they must be built even if they might destroy us all.
2nd principle: "Maximal efficiency & output over all else".
The objective metrics that run our modern societies are essentially only concerned with *quantities*: (More GDP, Growth, Consumption, Production = Better). Few raise the question of *quality*, or what the increase in quantity is good for ~ leading to imbalances in the system. -
"All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper". - Alan Kay
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"You want to focus on skills that complement, that which inevitability is becoming abundant" ~ @nikete channelling @halvarian
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Is the rate at which we drive real insects into extinction (after millions of years on earth) and the rate at which we create primitive/crude emulations of those very insects related?
http://ascii.jp/elem/000/001/687/1687200/
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Practical solutions to move towards more positive outcomes in the unfolding climate change catastrophe - by @Plinz (tweet)
Shift population centers above future sea levels and in different climates, focus on sustainable development, indoor agriculture, solar thermal, desalination, fix governance, end culture wars, protect civilization at almost all costs, leave messages to future intelligent species
