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How the media covers Africa in the West, and the
consequences
of that.
They expend three times more energy than a mammal of the same size, but don't seem to suffer the
consequences
or the effects.
Now, the horrors of the Second World War and of the Holocaust remind us of the terrible
consequences
of this way of thinking.
And the later it fails, the worse the
consequences.
Sometimes the search for truth, though, is a little bit less flippant, and it has much greater
consequences.
In that case, the
consequences
are rather severe.
We teach them how to go right face, left face, so they can obey instructions and know the
consequences
of not obeying instructions.
When I was 15, and I called my father to tell him that I had fallen in love, it was the last thing on either of our minds to discuss what the
consequences
were of the fact that my first love was a girl.
Otherwise, we're going to keep pouring oil all over our mental engines and suffering the
consequences.
There's going to be unintended
consequences.
And so right now, I think it's literally true that we don't know what the
consequences
of an effective denial-of-service attack on the Internet would be, and whatever it would be is going to be worse next year, and worse next year, and so on.
Of course there's health
consequences
to this, scary ones, besides the waist.
And as you're thinking of the
consequences
of that, it's getting really hard to hide from this stuff, among other things, because it's not just the electronic tattoos, it's facial recognition that's getting really good.
That was when I realized that this sort of benign neglect was a real problem, and it had real consequences, not just for Alex and her love life but for the careers and the families and the futures of twentysomethings everywhere.
And we need it now, before there's a devastating attack or a terrorist incident that causes nations of the world to rush to adopt these weapons before thinking through the
consequences.
But I am seeing in the major funders, in CARE, Rockefeller, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Hewlett, Mercy Corps, you guys, Google, so many other organizations, a beginning of understanding that we need to work not just on primary prevention of global warming, but on the secondary prevention of the
consequences
of global warming on the poorest and the most vulnerable.
We can say, "Oh, let's just build machines that can do everything we can do and not worry about the
consequences.
My lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology focuses on spinal cord injury, which affects more than 50,000 people around the world every year, with dramatic
consequences
for affected individuals, whose life literally shatters in a matter of a handful of seconds.
For example, only Americans now in their 70s or older today can remember the experience of living through a great depression, the experience of living through a world war, and agonizing whether or not dropping atomic bombs would be more horrible than the likely
consequences
of not dropping atomic bombs.
OK, the title of this presentation is "Connections and Consequences," and it's really a kind of summary of five years of trying to figure out what it's going to be like when everyone on the planet has the ability to transcend space and time in a personal and convenient manner, right?
Create feedback loops that expose people to the
consequences
of their actions.
Judges must ask, did they take reasonable care and could they have reasonably foreseen the
consequences
of their actions?
These three intertwined processes have completely annihilated all the traditional bearings of Western societies, with radical
consequences
for the individual.
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.
Of course, in reality, none of these
consequences
would have panned out, and we fully debriefed all of the participants afterward.
Right now, as Bill McDonough has pointed out, the objects that we buy and use have hidden
consequences.
In other words, we're oblivious to the ecological and public health and social and economic justice
consequences
of the things we buy and use.
And it talks about where the cotton was grown and the fertilizers that were used and the
consequences
for soil of that fertilizer.
But in a world of conservation reliance, those stories have very real consequences, because now, how we feel about an animal affects its survival more than anything that you read about in ecology textbooks.
Is this just a form of mis-prediction that doesn't have
consequences?
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