Neri Oxman
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard Sep 2023
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what kind of molecules these plants emit given stresses and given, you know, there's a reason why the jasmine, a jasmine field smells so, so delicious at 4 a.m.
in the morning.
And there's peace and rest amongst the plants.
And you have to sort of tune into that
time dimension of the plant kingdom.
And that, of course, requires all this humility where in a single capsule to design a biodiversity chamber, it will take years, not months, and definitely not days.
And to see these products and also that humility in design
comes from simply, you know, looking at how we are today as a civilization, how we use and abuse nature.
Like just think of all these Christmas trees, right?
These Christmas trees, they take years to grow.
We use them for one night, the holiest night of the year.
And then we let them go and think about in nature to design a quote unquote product, an organism spends energy and time and thoughtfulness and many, many, many years.
And I'm thinking about the redwoods.
To grow these channels, these, you know, the cellulose layers and channels and reach these incredible heights takes sometimes hundreds of years, sometimes thousands of years.
Am I afraid of building a company that designs products in the scale of thousands of years?
No, I'm not.
And the way of being in the physical world today is
is really not in tune with the time dimension of the natural world at all.
And that needs to change.
And that's obviously very, very hard to do in a community of human beings that is
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