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The maximum
efficient
distance for regeneration is only about one centimeter.
But it's not really what is probably most
efficient.
We want to get people to be more energy
efficient.
And if you're thinking of
efficient
information storage mechanisms, it may not turn out to be chips.
So, when you think of odd life forms, when you think of what it takes to live, it turns out this is a very
efficient
life form, and they call it an archaea.
Now, it's much more
efficient
if you can get insects to do your bidding.
Military medicine has become so
efficient
that the percentage of troops who survive after being wounded is much higher in this war than in any other war in our history.
They help us to make sense of the world in a quick and
efficient
way.
And if we are correct, if in fact some cookies have just come out of the oven, then our brains will have constructed hunger, and we are prepared to munch down those cookies and digest them in a very
efficient
way, meaning that we can eat a lot of them, which would be a really good thing.
So the
efficient
thing to do if you want to make the world better is not try to make people behave differently like the New Left was, but just give them tools that go in the right direction.
So, you know, tweaking the system is, I think, not only the most
efficient
way to make the system go in interesting ways, but in some ways, the safest way, because when you try to horse the whole system around in a big way, you can get into big horsing-around problems, but if you tweak it, it will adjust to the tweak.
They have to be better, they have to be more efficient, they have to be affordable.
Now, let me mention one thing: I think we need a polycentric model of development, where a large number of initiatives in different parts of the country, in different parts of the world, would solve the needs of locality in a very
efficient
and adaptive manner.
Because these technologies are so
efficient
and relatively cheap, billions of people can have access to lifesaving vaccines if we can figure out how to deliver them.
If we weren't so
efficient
at catching them, because they grow their entire life, would have 30-year-old bluefin out there that weigh a ton.
But the truth is we're way too
efficient
at catching them, and their stocks have collapsed worldwide.
My host explained to me, "Well, the robot is trying to get from point A to point B, and you were an obstacle in his way, so he had to replan his path, figure out where to go, and then get there some other way," which was actually not a very
efficient
thing to do.
If that robot had figured out that I was a person, not a chair, and that I was willing to get out of its way if it was trying to get somewhere, then it actually would have been more
efficient
at getting its job done if it had bothered to notice that I was a human and that I have different affordances than things like chairs and walls do.
And it turns out that a sound like this is the most energy
efficient
and practical way to transmit their call across the fields and savannahs.
150 years ago, locomotives got
efficient
enough, steam power, that we turned the continent into a country.
Over the last hundred years, we started building cars, and then over the 50 years we've connected every city to every other city in an extraordinarily
efficient
way, and we have a very high standard of living as a consequence of that.
The problem is, you get into the city and you want to go four blocks, it's neither fun nor
efficient
nor productive.
And one of the things that we need to do is, not only fix the fuel efficiency of our vehicles and make them much more efficient, but we also need to fix the economy in general.
Whether that's getting a much more
efficient
car and also kind of building markets for new cars and new fuels down the road, this is where we need to be.
And so in strict happy-planet methodology, we've become less
efficient
at turning our ultimate scarce resource into the outcome we want to.
And they're appliance companies, so they're developing extraordinary products that are very
efficient
and very cheap.
So it needs to get more efficient, and it needs to get more diverse.
Sometimes they complement human beings directly, making them more productive or more
efficient
at a particular task.
But in the future, software is going to displace human beings from the driving seat, and these satnav systems, rather than complement human beings, will simply make these driverless cars more efficient, helping the machines instead.
So OPV is extremely material efficient, which I think is a crucial thing when talking about sustainability.
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