Problems
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I wanted to be a designer because I wanted to solve real
problems.
We solve last year's
problems
without thinking about the future.
If you try and think about it, the things you're solving now, what
problems
are they going to bring in the future?
There's practical
problems.
So we asked if humans and bees might solve complex
problems
in the same way.
The G8 Summit proposes that the solution to Africa's
problems
should be a massive increase in aid, something akin to the Marshall Plan.
And in the process, none of these things really are productive because you are treating the symptoms, not the causes of Africa's fundamental
problems.
Equally, it could be better than we've been led to believe, but either way, we have to start seeing it exactly as it is, with all of its problems, because it's only by seeing it with all of its
problems
that we'll be able to fix them and live in a world in which we can all be happily ever after.
Well, we have similar
problems
in buildings.
They give off a lot of heat into the atmosphere, and for some of you may understand the heat island effect in cities, where the urban areas are much more warm than the adjacent rural areas, but we also have
problems
that, when we lose power, we can't open a window here, and so the buildings are uninhabitable and have to be made vacant until that air conditioning system can start up again.
Globally, 1.3 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day, and the work I did in Uganda represents the traditional approach to these
problems
that has been practiced since 1944, when winners of World War II, 500 founding fathers, and one lonely founding mother, gathered in New Hampshire, USA, to establish the Bretton Woods institutions, including the World Bank.
Open knowledge, open aid, open governance, and together, they represent three key shifts that are transforming development and that also hold greater hope for the
problems
I witnessed in Uganda and in Bihar.
So in the Philippines today, parents and students can give real-time feedback on a website, Checkmyschool.org, or using SMS, whether teachers and textbooks are showing up in school, the same
problems
I witnessed in Uganda and in Bihar.
These examples give new hope, new possibility to the
problems
I witnessed in Uganda or that my father confronted in Bihar.
As we age, we deteriorate, and this deterioration causes
problems
for our society, so we have to address it.
And coming home, my cofounder and I, we looked at it, and we said, there are two
problems.
And we sat here and we looked at these two problems, and finally we came to a realization.
These aren't
problems.
And in fact, online dictionaries replicate almost all the
problems
of print, except for searchability.
And one of the
problems
of knowing a word like "synecdochically" is that you really want an excuse to say "synecdochically."
Not only financial crises, but because of the sanitary pad research, I come through all sorts of problems, including a divorce notice from my wife.
So because we tested it with wheelchair users, with wheelchair manufacturers, we got that feedback from them, not just articulating their problems, but articulating their solutions, and worked together to go back to the drawing board and make a new design, which we brought back to East Africa in '09 that worked a lot better than a normal wheelchair on rough terrain, but it still didn't work well indoors because it was too big, it was heavy, it was hard to move around, so again with that user feedback, we went back to the drawing board, came up with a better design, 20 pounds lighter, as narrow as a regular wheelchair, tested that in a field trial in Guatemala, and that advanced the product to the point where we have now that it's going into production.
Another saying that I'm sure you have all heard around: Video games lead to attention
problems
and greater distractability.
So clearly playing those action games doesn't lead to attention
problems.
When you try to solve really complex social problems, the right thing to do is most of the time to create the incentives.
This is the power of nudges when trying to solve complex social problems, and when you do that, you shouldn't try to tell people how to adapt.
So what I want to share with you now are some of the experiments that myself and my colleagues have used to investigate how dung beetles deal with these
problems.
And it's vice versa, and it helps stop
problems
of misunderstanding and stereotypes from happening.
Here is an example from an op-ed on Thanksgiving, in the Boston Globe a couple of years ago, where the writer wrote, "The Indian life was a difficult one, but there were no employment problems, community harmony was strong, substance abuse unknown, crime nearly non-existent, what warfare there was between tribes was largely ritualistic and seldom resulted in indiscriminate or wholesale slaughter."
And for me, when I think about our future, and all of those
problems
that seem incredibly large, the scale is impossible, the urgency is there, Peers, Inc. provides the speed and scale and the innovation and the creativity that is going to answer these
problems.
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