Neil Gershenfeld
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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The research we spent the last few hours talking about, I thought was hard.
And in a sense, I mean, it's non-trivial, but in a sense, it's just sort of playing out, we're turning the crank.
What I didn't think was hard is if anybody can make almost anything anywhere...
How do you live?
How do you learn?
How do you work?
How you play?
These very basic assumptions about how society functions.
There's a way in which it's kind of back to the future in that this mode where work is money is consumption and consumption is shopping by selecting is only a kind of a few decade old stretch, right?
In some ways, we're getting back to a Sami village in North Norway is deeply sustainable, but rather than just reverting to living the way we did a few thousand years ago...
being connected globally, having the benefits of modern society, but connecting it back to older notions of sustainability.
I hadn't remotely anticipated just how fundamentally that challenges how a society functions and how interesting and how hard it is to figure out how we can make that work.
Let me violently agree in two ways.
One way is this community making crosses many sensitive sectarian boundaries in many parts of the world where there's just implicit or explicit conflict, but sort of this act of making
seems to transcend a lot of historical divisions.
I don't say that philosophically.
I just say that as an observation.
And I think there's something really fundamental in what you said, which is deep in our brain is shaping our environment.
A lot of what's strange about our society is the way that we can't do that.
the act of shaping our environment touches something really, really deep that gets to the essence of who we are.
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