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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.
It's also natural to ask about consciousness in other systems, like computers.
If that's right, it raises pretty serious ethical issues about both the ethics of developing intelligent computer
systems
and the ethics of turning them off.
I would take things like highlighter pen, mix it with water, pump it through plastic tubing, creating these glowing circulatory
systems
for people to walk through and enjoy.
Capitalism is the greatest social technology ever invented for creating prosperity in human societies, if it is well managed, but capitalism, because of the fundamental multiplicative dynamics of complex systems, tends towards, inexorably, inequality, concentration and collapse.
This initiative has led to many projects that have had huge system-wide impact, not just in our system, but in other state
systems
as well, small experiments making a big difference to science, to the community.
Oftentimes, they know more about our own
systems
than the people who run them.
Civics is the art of citizenship, what Bill Gates Sr. calls simply showing up for life, and it encompasses three things: a foundation of values, an understanding of the
systems
that make the world go round, and a set of skills that allow you to pursue goals and to have others join in that pursuit.
And this curriculum starts with this triad that I described earlier of values,
systems
and skills.
Recount all the different ways that you engaged the
systems
of government, of the marketplace, of social institutions, of faith organizations, of the media.
I look at them as individuals, and I think about them as creatures with their own individual weather
systems
guiding their behavior and informing how they respond to the world.
In the last five years, NASA has discovered over 1,000 planetary
systems
around nearby stars, but the
systems
we're finding aren't much like our own solar system, and one of the questions we face is is it just that we haven't been looking hard enough or is there something special or unusual about how our solar system formed?
And as we increase the detail of this picture, increasing the detail by factors of 10 to 100, we will be able to answer questions such as, is there evidence for planets outside the orbit of Neptune, to find Earth-impacting asteroids long before they're a danger, and to find out whether, maybe, our sun formed on its own or in a cluster of stars, and maybe it's this sun's stellar siblings that influenced the formation of our solar system, and maybe that's one of the reasons why solar
systems
like ours seem to be so rare.
There's this gap between knowing that patients' lives, the context of where they live and work, matters, and the ability to do something about it in the
systems
in which we work.
We're trying to make sure that clinicians, and therefore their
systems
that they work in have the ability, the confidence to address the problems in the living and working conditions in our lives.
Healthcare
systems
and payers can start to bring in public health agencies and departments and say, let's look at our data together.
If we're all able to do this work, doctors and healthcare systems, payers, and all of us together, we'll realize something about health.
And we are developing groundbreaking
systems
that will help for the development of better human clinical trials.
Machine learning is at the basis of many of the things that we do online: search engines, Amazon's personalization algorithm, computer translation, voice recognition
systems.
I've based my scientific career on using leading-edge molecular techniques, DNA- and RNA-based methods to look at microbial populations in biological reactors, and again to optimize these
systems.
In some of these areas, there's not enough water, there's no energy, it's going to cost tens of trillions of dollars to lay out the sewer lines and to build the facilities and to operate and maintain these systems, and if you don't build it right, you're going to have flush toilets that basically go straight into the river, just like what's happening in many cities in the developing world.
So we've got to rethink sanitation, and we've got to reinvent the sanitation infrastructure, and I'm going to argue that to do this, you have to employ
systems
thinking.
Or, for example, in some of our research, you can reuse the water by treating it in on-site sanitation
systems
like planter boxes or constructed wetlands.
Paralysis also interferes with the body's internal systems, which are designed to keep us alive.
And finally, they're taught over and over again the importance of prevention, especially as chronic diseases cripple health
systems
worldwide.
So in the best case scenarios, these graduates are staffing and thus strengthening public health systems, where often they're the only doctors around.
So you would think that she's getting messages from her organization through the talent development
systems
and performance management
systems
that let her know how important it is to develop business, strategic and financial acumen, but here again, that green square is quite small.
On average, talent and performance management
systems
in the organizations that I've worked with focus three to one on the other two elements of leadership compared to the importance of business, strategic and financial acumen, which is why typical talent and performance
systems
haven't closed and won't close the gender gap at the top.
Now, Tonya also talked about working with a mentor, and this is really important to talk about, because if organizations, talent and performance
systems
aren't giving people in general information about the importance of business, strategic and financial acumen, how are men getting to the top?
The pursuit of the perfect body is putting pressure on our healthcare
systems
and costing our governments billions of dollars every year.
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