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And Gregory Bateson was an epistemologist and anthropologist and biologist and psychologist and many other things, and he looked at how
systems
basically look at themselves.
There are almost always laws on the books that would protect these people, but they've often never heard of those laws, and the
systems
that are supposed to enforce those laws are corrupt or broken or both.
Whether it's India, Kenya, the United States or anywhere else, trying to squeeze justice out of broken
systems
is like Ravi's case.
And so not only do we urgently need to support and protect the work of barefoot lawyers around the world, we need to change the
systems
themselves.
This is about growing reforms from the experience of ordinary people trying to make the rules and
systems
work.
And I believe we won't overcome the despair that authoritarian politicians prey upon if our
systems
stay rigged.
It's connected to, what I call, the principle of computational equivalence, which tells us that even incredibly simple
systems
can do computations as sophisticated as anything.
I mean, the
systems
work, and we have to find out how to manufacture them and do things of this kind, but the basic technology works.
The only thing that is keeping us from basically saving the lives of everybody who needs the medicine to stay alive are the absence of
systems
necessary to diagnose, treat and care for people and deliver this medicine.
The
systems
are not there to reach the people.
And the absence of
systems
that function break the connection which got you all in this seat tonight.
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there.
That's great, except the places that have malaria really bad, they don't have health care
systems.
But at least on coral reefs are
systems
where there is a bottom component with structure.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that without informal carers like him, our health and social
systems
would crumble.
Once seen as a personal and private matter in family life, unpaid caregiving has formed the invisible backbone of our health and social
systems
all over the world.
These numbers, among others, demonstrate that if carers were to stop caring tomorrow, our health and social
systems
would crumble.
And while the importance of these millions of silent carers cannot be denied, they've largely been unnoticed by governments, healthcare
systems
and private entities.
And this is true of most of our living
systems.
Now, here's another little secret I'm going to tell you about: For the last 25 years, oil has been playing less and less of a role in global energy
systems.
This is a very important picture of the evolution of energy
systems.
We have built our education
systems
on the model of fast food.
And finally, to pull out all the stops, this is a system called Urp, for urban planners, in which we give architects and urban planners back the models that we confiscated when we insisted that they use CAD
systems.
This is a system called TAMPER, which is a slightly whimsical look at what the future of editing and media manipulation
systems
might be.
It was made in stars like that, locked away and then returned to the universe in explosions like that in order to recondense into planets, stars, new solar
systems
and, indeed, people like us.
And I think these
systems
live and work amongst us now, and not only are these
systems
living amongst us but you are probably a robot operator, too.
You are also going from point A to point B, but your car probably has power steering, it probably has automatic braking systems, it might have an automatic transmission and maybe even adaptive cruise control.
The best thing that can happen with these
systems
is that it starts to feel like you're just there.
That's awkward and not OK, and so we end up having to build these new social norms around using these
systems.
People who get really good at operating these
systems
will even do things like make up new games, like robot soccer in the middle of the night, pushing the trash cans around.
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