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The other thing you need to know about shame is it's absolutely organized by gender.
The downside about that is, there's something impersonal about lots of identical things, because when you're trying to design one thing for one person to solve one issue, you can't really do that when you're making things aimed more to a demographic model or to a marketing requirements document, which is what we live by.
The thing that came from this pop culture show, the real takeaway, was two main things: if you're designing for the person, for a real person, you don't settle for the minimum functional requirements; you see how far beyond that you can go, where the rewards really are way out in the fringe of how far past that document you can go.
We work with prosthetic limbs, and the first thing you see about prosthetic limbs is that they are engineering brilliance.
So when you're designing for the body, maybe the thing isn't to design for mass production, but to design with the body in mind, to really think about curves instead of hard geometry, or uniqueness instead of identical.
The problem is, we're constrained by mass production, which makes a million identical things but can't make one unique, individualized thing.
We call the resulting parts "fairings," because they're named after the panels on a motorcycle that turn it from a mechanical thing into a sculptural thing.
The other thing, though, is that the other members of the team stopped thinking of him as the amputee on the team.
Back to the 3D-printing thing and this whole process: we have a process that lends itself to making one thing per person; it's very individual, and it actually really lends itself well to complexity.
The execution phase is when we get to build this thing, and when this conversation goes from a few people to a few hundred people now translating this idea.
We put it in this beautiful little thing, put it in the "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" super-sizer machine and blow it up full-scale, and we never know if we did it right until we show up onstage and go, "Is it OK?
Is it OK?" Here's the thing: you don't have to be Lin, you don't have to have a book that you want to turn into a show in order to do this in your real life.
Now most of you are probably saying, well there's no such thing as nuclear fusion.
And my sense is, it's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
Now the first thing that will piss you off, undoubtedly, is that all of us are, in fact, going to die in the 21st century.
Anyway, the second thing I want to say about dying in the 21st century, apart from it's going to happen to everybody, is it's shaping up to be a bit of a train wreck for most of us, unless we do something to try and reclaim this process from the rather inexorable trajectory that it's currently on.
And this one's the biggest growth industry of all, and at least six out of 10 of the people in this room will die in this form, which is the dwindling of capacity with increasing frailty, and frailty's an inevitable part of aging, and increasing frailty is in fact the main thing that people die of now, and the last few years, or the last year of your life is spent with a great deal of disability, unfortunately.
So with loads of funding from the Federal Government and the local Health Service, we introduced a thing at John Hunter called Respecting Patient Choices.
The second thing you can say is, "Have you spoken to that person about the things that are important to you so that we've got a better idea of what it is we can do?"
I don't know, I don't think I look like that anymore, but I had, two of my kids were born at home in the '80s when home birth was a big thing, and we baby boomers are used to taking charge of the situation, so if you just replace all these words of birth, I like "Peace, Love, Natural Death" as an option.
And I think the main thing that I'm interested in is trying to find a way of making the computer into a personal mode of expression.
And this is the same thing, money down there, and health, you know?
And the interesting thing, when you go around here in the photo panorama, you see the family still sitting on the floor there.
The nice thing here is that you can't see who are the researchers in this picture.
The women told us one thing.
Everyone wants your pet thing.
On the global level, we have to have more than our own thing.
Economic growth to me, as a public-health professor, is the most important thing for development because it explains 80 percent of survival.
Governance, well it's fun to vote in a little thing, but it's not a goal.
Culture is the most important thing, I would say, because that's what brings joy to life.
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