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Stawi is leveraging economies of
scale
and using modern manufacturing processes to create value for not only its owners but its workers, who have an ownership in the business.
perhaps supporting fewer, higher-impact entrepreneurs to build massive businesses that
scale
pan-Africa can help change this.
We are built out of very small stuff, and we are embedded in a very large cosmos, and the fact is that we are not very good at understanding reality at either of those scales, and that's because our brains haven't evolved to understand the world at that
scale.
I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global
scale
almost instantaneously.
In both quantity and quality, this was an unprecedented
scale.
So people started asking us, "Well, Theaster, how are you going to go to scale?" and, "What's your sustainability plan?" (Laughter) (Applause) And what I found was that I couldn't export myself, that what seems necessary in cities like Akron, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan, and Gary, Indiana, is that there are people in those places who already believe in those places, that are already dying to make those places beautiful, and that often, those people who are passionate about a place are disconnected from the resources necessary to make cool things happen, or disconnected from a contingency of people that could help make things happen.
So now, we're starting to give advice around the country on how to start with what you got, how to start with the things that are in front of you, how to make something out of nothing, how to reshape your world at a wheel or at your block or at the
scale
of the city.
Josh Littman: From a
scale
of one to 10, do you think your life would be different without animals?
We have reserves that can
scale
us up to large numbers.
But the fact is, it's because I didn't draw them on the same
scale.
How do we implement that to a higher degree on a more extensive
scale?
So I thought that the dinner will take place, though not at that large a
scale.
You build up these expert systems, and they were kind of useful for some purposes, but they were very brittle, you couldn't
scale
them.
And the bacteria synchronize quite well at this scale, but because the molecule that synchronizes them together can only travel so fast, in larger colonies of bacteria, this results in traveling waves between bacteria that are far away from each other, and you can see these waves going from right to left across the screen.
I'm going to talk about a hobby that can
scale
and show you photos I've taken over the years with kids like these, that hopefully will grow up to love rocketry and eventually become a Richard Branson or Diamandis.
So we design in real 3D, making
scale
structural models out of the same material that we'll later use to build the house.
Human trafficking is found on a smaller
scale
than just that, and in places you would never even imagine.
It blows my mind away that we can now quantify something as personal as our emotions, and we can do it at this
scale.
I know that the
scale
of antibiotic resistance seems overwhelming, but if you've ever bought a fluorescent lightbulb because you were concerned about climate change, or read the label on a box of crackers because you think about the deforestation from palm oil, you already know what it feels like to take a tiny step to address an overwhelming problem.
Just to give that boat some scale, I could climb inside her mast all the way to the top.
What lies before us is to expand them and
scale
them up.
Monuments to war, such as Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial, are often enormous in
scale.
At scale, microgrid technology, clean technology and energy efficiency dramatically improve public health.
It's even smaller in
scale.
And so the idea is to represent each country on a map, but
scale
the area according to some quantity.
The
scale
is comparable in height; in fact, it's smaller than this telescope will be.
It is much more demanding today to attract and retain customers, to build advantage on a global scale, to create value.
They've written books and columns and given passionate speeches, decrying the wealth gap that is leaving more and more people entrenched at the bottom end of the income
scale.
It turns out, according to most studies, that those countries that are the most gender equal are also the countries that score highest on the happiness
scale.
And we shouldn't underestimate the
scale
and the transformative nature of the change which will be needed, because we have to go to zero carbon emissions by about 2050, if we're going to stay below two degrees Celsius of warming.
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