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To imagine that we're not going to use these
technologies
when they become available, is as much a denial of who we are as to imagine that we'll use these
technologies
and not fret and worry about it a great deal.
And it's going to deny us the information that we need to make wise decisions about how to use these
technologies.
The one thing though that is really dangerous about these sorts of technologies, is that it's easy to become seduced by them.
And to use our advanced
technologies
to pull out what is beneficial from this sea of noise, basically.
We have these
technologies.
We're just beginning to realize the potential of nature-based
technologies.
For a while, I thought of machines and the
technologies
that drive them as perfect tools that could make my work more efficient and more productive.
For the past few years, I've made work alongside machines, data and emerging
technologies.
So picture a big urn filled with balls representing ideas, methods, possible
technologies.
So we can document that the pace at which we are adopting new
technologies
is increasing.
Here's just one more paradox: If all of these faster
technologies
were supposed to free us from drudgery, why do we all feel so pressed for time?
So as we zoom into the future, let's consider setting the
technologies
of speed, the purpose of speed and our expectations of speed to a more human pace.
Well first of all I think we can do much better on the existing
technologies.
We talk about leapfrog
technologies.
So the point is just that these
technologies
that we have are really measuring the wrong thing.
In Parkinson's, there's one particular kind of neuron deep in your brain that is responsible for the disease, and these
technologies
just don't have the resolution that you need to get at that.
Because these
technologies
were still restricted to medical applications, which meant that we were studying sick brains, not healthy brains.
And crucially, how we would like the regulatory and ethical frameworks that govern these
technologies
to interact with our society.
So we set out at Interface, in 1994, to create an example: to transform the way we made carpet, a petroleum-intensive product for materials as well as energy, and to transform our
technologies
so they diminished environmental impact, rather than multiplied it.
But the pace of exponential growth is really what describes information
technologies.
Communication technologies: 50 different ways to measure this, the number of bits being moved around, the size of the Internet.
And our goal was to assemble the leaders, both teachers and students, in these exponentially growing information technologies, and their application.
Then we are going to apply them to the other areas, like energy, ecology, policy law and ethics, entrepreneurship, so that people can bring these new
technologies
to the world.
Now, in terms of biomimetics, as human
technologies
take on more of the characteristics of nature, nature becomes a much more useful teacher.
How? Why? Paleontology is a thriving science at the intersection of multiple other fields and
technologies.
Some of the tools for this had been around for a hundred years, but it had only been used as a diagnostic technique until the 1980s, when there was changes in camera
technologies
and things like that, that allowed this to be done for real operations.
So, with the combination of these
technologies
we can reach it all, and we can see it all.
Some of the
technologies
we've been talking about, you invented them, or at least revolutionized the way that they're used.
And this is an emerging set of
technologies
that use large-screen displays with intelligent calculation in the background to make the invisible visible.
Bad rules can prevent the kind of win-win solution that's available when people can bring new
technologies
in and make them available to someone like Nelson.
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