Solutions
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There are no one-size-fits-all
solutions.
You know, developing countries today will not simply accept
solutions
that are handed down to them by the U.S., Europe or the World Bank.
These are actually
solutions.
So as is the case with simple solutions, oftentimes the answer is right in front of your face, and for us it was levers.
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.
And that got me into a discussion with some other people, other scientists, about maybe some other subjects, and one of the guys I talked to, who was a neuroscientist, said, "You know, I think there are a lot of
solutions
to the problems you brought up," and reminds me of Michael's talk yesterday and his mother saying you can't have a solution if you don't have a problem.
So, we went out looking for
solutions
to ways that the world might end tomorrow, and lo and behold, we found them.
So, what are the
solutions?
So, what are the
solutions
to this? (Laughter) Thank God you can all read!
What are the
solutions?
We need to know earlier that they're getting in trouble, and we need to be able to pump possible
solutions
into models.
Could we have the
solutions?
Part two of the solutions: we need to figure out how to blow up an asteroid, or alter its trajectory.
We like
solutions.
In fact, if you look just at the upper and northern states in the West, they could do geothermal, or you could look at Texas and say, we could lead the nation in the
solutions
to smart grid.
In the upper northeast, we're going to lead the nation in energy efficiency
solutions.
It made me absolutely determined to devote my life to finding
solutions.
If we want today to build technology that can overcome the challenges that we face, we have to throw our entire selves into understanding the issues and into building
solutions
that are as human as the problems they aim to solve.
So we had to solve all the problems we had without air conditioning and with very poor power, so most of the
solutions
that came out used little blasts of air put at the right places to keep the machines running.
And I won't provide some feel-good, ready-made
solutions.
Our democracies are undermined by the growing inequality and the growing concentration of power and wealth, lobbies, corruption, the speed of the markets or simply the fact that we sometimes fear an impending disaster, have constrained our democracies, and they have constrained our capacity to imagine and actually use the potential, your potential, in finding
solutions.
In Brussels, when we tried desperately again and again to find common solutions, I realized that not one, not one of us, had ever dealt with a similar crisis.
Instead of reaching out to the common or the collective wisdom in our societies, investing in it to find more creative solutions, we reverted to political posturing.
Let's see if we can't design a European agora, not simply for products and services, but for our citizens, where they can work together, deliberate, learn from each other, exchange between art and cultures, where they can come up with creative
solutions.
When we face these crises, we have kept the potential, the huge potential of our society out of this process, and we are closing in on ourselves in politics, and I think we need to change that, to really find new participatory ways using the great capabilities that now exist even in technology but not only in technology, the minds that we have, and I think we can find
solutions
which are much better, but we have to be open.
In a globalized world, corruption is a truly globalized business, and one that needs global solutions, supported and pushed by us all, as global citizens, right here.
Now our two
solutions
to climate are obviously to reduce our emissions and find storage.
The important thing for me is that these are
solutions
solved in context.
What's turned out to be really exciting is that our ability to come up with novel
solutions
to complex problems is hugely enhanced by a night of sleep.
In fact, we live in a 21st-century world of interdependence, and brutal interdependent problems, and when we look for
solutions
in politics and in democracy, we are faced with political institutions designed 400 years ago, autonomous, sovereign nation-states with jurisdictions and territories separate from one another, each claiming to be able to solve the problem of its own people.
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