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But right now, most of the companies involved in these supply chains don't have any way of assuring us that nobody had to mortgage their future, nobody had to sacrifice their rights to bring us our favorite brand name product.
Those supply chains I put up on the screen earlier, they're not there.
For example, you could plot the flow of carbon through corporate supply chains in a corporate ecosystem, or the interconnections of habitat patches for endangered species in Yosemite National Park.
They're at the start of food chains.
A greater distribution of the means of production, environmentally sound supply chains, and a newly relevant DIY maker culture can hope to transcend artificial scarcity.
So the last project I'll show is called Biased Chains, and it's probably the most exciting example that we have right now of passive self-assembly systems.
And they have one of the world's most amazing supply chains, 60,000 suppliers.
As cell division begins the nucleus disintegrates, the chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell and those special proteins undergo a three-dimensional sequence whereby they attach and they literally click into place end-on-end to form chains.
These chains then progress and attach to the genetic material and pull the genetic material from one cell into two cells.
And it prevents them from forming those chains, those mitotic spindles, that are necessary to pull the genetic material into the daughter cells.
And we've stained these cultures with a green florescent dye so that we can look at these proteins that form these chains.
And sure, we could find fast food chains.
The kerosene and charcoal value chains already figured this out: those fuels are ubiquitous across the entire country.
We only can create a vision of the future, how it might be, a vision which reveals disruptive ideas, which is inspiring, and this is the most important reason which breaks the chains of common thinking.
Plants are busy making long chains of starches and glucose, right, out of CO2.
Many businesses now, fortunately, have codes of conduct and audit their supply chains, but not every business.
Now, those falling transaction costs have profound consequences, because if transaction costs are the glue that hold value chains together, and they are falling, there is less to economize on.
There is less need for vertically integrated organization, and value chains at least can break up.
It was about falling transaction costs breaking up value chains and therefore allowing disintermediation, or what we call deconstruction.
The plummeting of transaction costs weakens the glue that holds value chains together, and allows them to separate.
Mandela said, "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
Scrutiny of supply chains is intensifying, and that cannot continue to escape public attention.
It is chains.
The renowned socialist activist Rosa Luxemburg once said, "He who does not move does not notice his chains."
We can try and render the chains of mass surveillance invisible or undetectable, but the constraints that it imposes on us do not become any less potent.
This whale pump, as it's called, actually brings essential limiting nutrients from the depths to the surface waters where they stimulate the growth of phytoplankton, which forms the base of all marine food chains.
And then we've got to be able to have systems that can find every single case, every contact of those cases, and begin to track the transmission chains so that you can stop transmission.
Origami armies unfold plans for paper planes and we remain imprisoned in our own paper chains, but the greater shame is that it always seems to stay the same, what changes is who’s in power choosing how to lay the blame, they’re naming names, forgetting these are names of people, because in the end it all comes down to people.
When he found out, he and his wife were shocked and horrified, and they wound up writing an op-ed for a newspaper, saying that it was up to all of us to learn everything we can about the labor and supply chains of the products that we support.
What would happen if each one of us decided that we are no longer going to support companies if they don't eliminate exploitation from their labor and supply chains?
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