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Social
lines are barbed wire.
Of course you can't separate this out from issues like
social
diversity, mass transit, the ability to be able to walk a convenient distance, the quality of civic spaces.
It has facilities like swimming pools, it has flextime, it has a
social
heart, a space, you have contact with nature.
It's a
social
norm.
But it's a special kind of
social
norm, because it's a
social
norm that wants to tell us who we can relate to and who we shouldn't relate to.
Because our
social
relations are increasingly mediated by data, and data turns our
social
relations into digital relations, and that means that our digital relations now depend extraordinarily on technology to bring to them a sense of robustness, a sense of discovery, a sense of surprise and unpredictability.
I spend a lot of time thinking about how the
social
landscape is changing, how new technologies create new constraints and new opportunities for people.
Our
social
lives in the future depend on that.
Whether you're a political party insisting to your detriment on a very rigid notion of who belongs and who does not, whether you're the government protecting
social
institutions like marriage and restricting access of those institutions to the few, whether you're a teenager in her bedroom who's trying to jostle her relations with her parents, strangeness is a way to think about how we pave the way to new kinds of relations.
How might we think differently about our relations with technologies, things that effectively become
social
participants in their own right?
This is a couple at a later stage of life, Charlie Bresler and Diana Schott, who, when they were young, when they met, were activists against the Vietnam War, fought for
social
justice, and then moved into careers, as most people do, didn't really do anything very active about those values, although they didn't abandon them.
When we use the word "architect" or "designer," what we usually mean is a professional, someone who gets paid, and we tend to assume that it's those professionals who are going to be the ones to help us solve the really big, systemic design challenges that we face like climate change, urbanization and
social
inequality.
Most of the work takes place outside of the monetary economy in what's called the
social
economy or the core economy, which is people doing it for themselves.
So the challenge we face is, how are we going to build the tools, the infrastructure and the institutions for architecture's
social
economy?
They have
social
knits that are very close.
That's a naive way to understanding what is a much deeper and more systematic
social
problem.
But instead of seeing it in the binary fashion, we focus on all of us as what we call bystanders, and a bystander is defined as anybody who is not a perpetrator or a victim in a given situation, so in other words friends, teammates, colleagues, coworkers, family members, those of us who are not directly involved in a dyad of abuse, but we are embedded in social, family, work, school, and other peer culture relationships with people who might be in that situation.
That's a naive way of creating a
social
change.
There's self-acceptance, there's family acceptance, and there's
social
acceptance.
We live at a point when
social
acceptance for these and many other conditions is on the up and up.
So we have both
social
progress and medical progress.
I believe the
social
progress is fantastic and meaningful and wonderful, and I think the same thing about the medical progress.
Now, young dolphins learn a lot as they're growing up, and they use their teenage years to practice
social
skills, and at about the age of nine, the females become sexually mature, so they can get pregnant, and the males mature quite a bit later, at around 15 years of age.
Now, dolphins are
social
mammals, so they love to play, and one of their favorite games is to drag seaweed, or sargassum in this case, around.
But as the
social
researcher Charles Murray has documented, as we started to automate the economy, and 1960 is just about when computers started to be used by businesses, as we started to progressively inject technology and automation and digital stuff into the economy, the fortunes of Bill and Ted diverged a lot.
So I cannot tell a happy story about these
social
trends, and they don't show any signs of reversing themselves.
And if you find yourself worried that something like a guaranteed income is going to stifle our drive to succeed and make us kind of complacent, you might be interested to know that
social
mobility, one of the things we really pride ourselves on in the United States, is now lower than it is in the northern European countries that have these very generous
social
safety nets.
But the thing about fake news is that we don't always know what is fake and what is real, but we base our decisions on facts we get from the press and
social
media.
That means there will be more people with fewer
social
security dollars competing for services.
Others think that it has more of a
social
role, that it's used to bind the group.
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