Scale
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The
scale
of carbon capture is so enormous that the capture process must be sustainable, and you can't use a material just once.
These strange artifacts are designed to compensate for the undesirable effects of
scale
and production process.
Here's an aerial photograph of one of the Anasazi ruins; you can see it's circular at the largest scale, but it's rectangular at the smaller scale, right?
This is not a
scale
model, this is the real size.
We even put satellites in space just to test the satellites, and we've learned to manufacture our satellites at
scale.
It gives you a bit of a sense of
scale
of our two satellites.
Instead of the eyes focusing in and having that social connection, looking at the mouth, looking at the nose, looking off in another direction, but not again socially connecting, and being able to do this on a very large scale, screen infants, screen children for autism, through something very robust, very reliable, is going to be very helpful to us in terms of being able to intervene at an early stage when we can have the greatest impact.
And if I think about a weather model, that spans about five orders of magnitude, from the planet to a few kilometers, and the time
scale
from a few minutes to 10 days, maybe a month.
But there are new technologies and new products that they can make on a small
scale.
CA: What's the bottleneck preventing this stuff getting from
scale?
Do you need to find entrepreneurs, or venture capitalists, or what do you need to take what you've got and get it to
scale?
Computer algorithms today are performing incredible tasks with high accuracies, at a massive scale, using human-like intelligence.
So I have to find the perfect place on that scale, in this case it's somewhere in the middle.
There is gay marriage and sperm donors and there's intermarriage on an unprecedented scale, and this makes some of my more conservative cousins a little nervous, but I actually think it's a good thing.
And you'll be forced to come to terms with that memory of place, that memory of that crossing, that at times seems very lucid and clear, but at other times, forces us again to reconcile the
scale.
I'm talking about the design of digital experiences and specifically the design of systems that are so big that their
scale
can be hard to comprehend.
These are some of the products that I've helped design over the course of my career, and their
scale
is so massive that they've produced unprecedented design challenges.
But what is really hard about designing at
scale
is this: It's hard in part because it requires a combination of two things, audacity and humility — audacity to believe that the thing that you're making is something that the entire world wants and needs, and humility to understand that as a designer, it's not about you or your portfolio, it's about the people that you're designing for, and how your work just might help them live better lives.
I and the other designers who work on these kinds of products have had to invent it as we go along, and we are teaching ourselves the emerging best practices of designing at scale, and today I'd like share some of the things that we've learned over the years.
Now, the first thing that you need to know about designing at
scale
is that the little things really matter.
It's because when you're designing at scale, there's no such thing as a small detail.
They're good best practices for designing at
scale.
So what does it mean to design at a global
scale?
Enough TED Talks on One Laptop per Child, so I'll go through it very fast, but it did give us the chance to do something at a relatively large
scale
in the area of learning, development and computing.
So I said, well can we do this at a larger
scale?
With this accreditation, it's our time now to
scale
up.
This is what I want to talk about today, and I want to start by defining some terms and then I want to describe the
scale
of the problem I think we face and then suggest the ways that I believe cities can be the seat of the solution.
But the telescopes we've used over the last decade are not designed to capture the data at this
scale.
Well, how do you capture an image at this
scale?
Well, you build the largest digital camera in history, using the same technology you find in the cameras in your cell phone or in the digital cameras you can buy in the High Street, but now at a
scale
that is five and a half feet across, about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, where one image is three billion pixels.
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