The document presents three alternative future scenarios for envisioning a sustainable future:
1) "Walking the Tightrope" envisions a mainstream future with steady, top-down leadership promoting efficiency through technologies like electric cars and careful biotech while minimizing lifestyle changes.
2) "Flux Capacity" describes a future where institutions are remade after an economic crisis forces widespread adaptation, with resilience and localized production through rapid manufacturing.
3) "Catalytic Conversions" involves rapid, radical transformations through new technologies like neurotech, nanotech and AI that could question concepts of governance, work and identity while potentially restoring the environment.
SoCap 2011: Socially Good Products from Open DataJay Nath
Innovative Environments: Socially Good Products from Open Data
location: Fleet Room
Wed Sep-07, 11:45 AM PDT- 12:45 PM PDT
Technology: Inclusive & Investable
What can data tell us about where to invest and what projects to pursue? Jay Nath leads a panel with expertise in governmental, non-profit, and supply-chain data, discussing building alliances to source data, and the products for social good that can emerge from open data sources.
Slides used for my talk on privacy & surveillance for the 2012 Crown College core course at UC Santa Cruz. Slide 22 (the Andy Baio pepper spray compilation) was a video in the original, a still image here.
SoCap 2011: Socially Good Products from Open DataJay Nath
Innovative Environments: Socially Good Products from Open Data
location: Fleet Room
Wed Sep-07, 11:45 AM PDT- 12:45 PM PDT
Technology: Inclusive & Investable
What can data tell us about where to invest and what projects to pursue? Jay Nath leads a panel with expertise in governmental, non-profit, and supply-chain data, discussing building alliances to source data, and the products for social good that can emerge from open data sources.
Slides used for my talk on privacy & surveillance for the 2012 Crown College core course at UC Santa Cruz. Slide 22 (the Andy Baio pepper spray compilation) was a video in the original, a still image here.
Socio-Tehnical Innovation. Multi-Level Perspective an analytical framework fo...Javier de Vicente
An approach to Multi-Level Perspective using forests and a flower visualization as a metaphor to depict it.
MLP is an analytical framework to better understand and explain transition in socio-technical systems.
David Cooperrider Sustainability For Profit And Value Through Appreciative In...dlc6
every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity and the sustainable design process is empowered by the strength-based methodology of appreciative inquiry.
David Tyfield: Game-changing Innovation in China STEPS Centre
David Tyfield, Lancaster University.
Presentation to the UK-China Innovation Workshop for Sustainable and Equitable Development, Tsinghua University, 19 March 2010, co-organised by China Institute for Science and Technology Policy (CISTP) at Tsinghua University and the STEPS Centre.
http://anewmanifesto.org/news/china-workshop-presentationschina-workshop-presentations/
Among some of the world’s top corporate leaders, there’s a growing understanding that traditional business models—built on the presumption of unlimited and cheap natural resources—must be reworked for 21st century realities. The circular economy represents a markedly different way of doing business, replacing established practices like planned obsolescence with new approaches to generating profits. This report examines how brands from Puma and Ford to Ikea and Starbucks are becoming more circular, why this concept is gaining more adherents now and implications for brands. The circular economy is an important topic not only because the approach is far better for the planet but also because tapping into its principles may well be essential to long-term competitiveness.
Innovation workshop: Challenges requiring innovative ideas from SMEs.
Presentation to the delegates who learnt about selected challenges from large organisations (Council, Hospitals, NHS, Global Corporates). They also heard summaries of specific challenges for the first time from two hospitals and the council.
Two key markets addressed
a) Health
b) Low Carbon | Sustainability
Presenters:
Hugo Russell, Innovation Birmingham
Shokat Akbar, Birmingham Community Healthcare
Dr Jackie Homan, Birmingham City Council
Dr Aziza Mahomed, University Hospital Birmingham
Dr Vicki Ensor, MIDRU, Heartlands Hospital
Presentación utilizada por Adrian Smith, investigador de la universidad de Sussex, en el diálogo (im)probable organizado en el itdUPM sobre la teoría de las transiciones
Morning keynote presentation at the 2010 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute annual meeting. Focus is on futures thinking tools, along with an overview of key drivers for the next few decades.
Socio-Tehnical Innovation. Multi-Level Perspective an analytical framework fo...Javier de Vicente
An approach to Multi-Level Perspective using forests and a flower visualization as a metaphor to depict it.
MLP is an analytical framework to better understand and explain transition in socio-technical systems.
David Cooperrider Sustainability For Profit And Value Through Appreciative In...dlc6
every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity and the sustainable design process is empowered by the strength-based methodology of appreciative inquiry.
David Tyfield: Game-changing Innovation in China STEPS Centre
David Tyfield, Lancaster University.
Presentation to the UK-China Innovation Workshop for Sustainable and Equitable Development, Tsinghua University, 19 March 2010, co-organised by China Institute for Science and Technology Policy (CISTP) at Tsinghua University and the STEPS Centre.
http://anewmanifesto.org/news/china-workshop-presentationschina-workshop-presentations/
Among some of the world’s top corporate leaders, there’s a growing understanding that traditional business models—built on the presumption of unlimited and cheap natural resources—must be reworked for 21st century realities. The circular economy represents a markedly different way of doing business, replacing established practices like planned obsolescence with new approaches to generating profits. This report examines how brands from Puma and Ford to Ikea and Starbucks are becoming more circular, why this concept is gaining more adherents now and implications for brands. The circular economy is an important topic not only because the approach is far better for the planet but also because tapping into its principles may well be essential to long-term competitiveness.
Innovation workshop: Challenges requiring innovative ideas from SMEs.
Presentation to the delegates who learnt about selected challenges from large organisations (Council, Hospitals, NHS, Global Corporates). They also heard summaries of specific challenges for the first time from two hospitals and the council.
Two key markets addressed
a) Health
b) Low Carbon | Sustainability
Presenters:
Hugo Russell, Innovation Birmingham
Shokat Akbar, Birmingham Community Healthcare
Dr Jackie Homan, Birmingham City Council
Dr Aziza Mahomed, University Hospital Birmingham
Dr Vicki Ensor, MIDRU, Heartlands Hospital
Presentación utilizada por Adrian Smith, investigador de la universidad de Sussex, en el diálogo (im)probable organizado en el itdUPM sobre la teoría de las transiciones
Morning keynote presentation at the 2010 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute annual meeting. Focus is on futures thinking tools, along with an overview of key drivers for the next few decades.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
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An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
56. JAMAIS CASCIO
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A NEW KIND OF EDEN
SOCAP11
57. Walking the Tightrope
• Mainstream vision
• Hard to achieve
• Minimizing changes to lifestyles
• emphasis on efficiency
• “steady change and strong leadership
• better-than-LEED buildings, electric cars
• robot ag, careful biotech food
• everything tagged and traceable
• US-led, US hurt less by climate disruption than China/EU
• Geoengineering
• International cooperation
• Heavy regulation, but still market-oriented
• Developing world leapfrog
• China/India/etc focus on getting to better-than-US lifestyle, not just replicating west
• Very top-down
58. Flux Capacity
• Hippie Nirvana? Not quite.
• Recovery story, we are forced to rebuild the world; Adaptation
• Most existing institutions questioned
• Distributed and collaborative
• Key design principle is resilience
• Still high-tech, emphasis on social tech; “Cyber Amish”
• Post-disaster, not post-apocalypse; long economic crisis
• EU split, China unstable, US lost empire; no leading superpower
• Strong regionalism; world no longer “flat,” it’s very bumpy
• citizenship often tied to city-states/megapolitan areas
• rapid local fab, global markets are for info/design
• slow-down of technological innovation
• hybrid electric/sail cargo ships, permaculture farms, less long-distance travel
• Deep interconnection, but often virtual; lots of sharing
• It Gets Better
59. Catalytic Conversions
• Radical tech
• Move from adaptation to restoration
• rapid transformation: things get weird fast; not a “Green Singularity,” but close to it
• New models of governance, work, play
• Notions of citizenship, commerce, even human identity called into question
• Advanced neurotech, molecular fab, general machine intelligence
• Neuro: augmentation, drugs, digital
• Fab: nanotech. Smart materials, waste=resource, disrupted markets
• GMI: knowledge work, ubiquitous
• Also medical, energy, biotech. Biomimetic, robots, etc.
• Basic Income Guarantees and the end of traditional work
• Tools of empowerment or of control? Lots of international disruption
• Big benefits, but also big risks
• “Mental health is civil defense”
• Only one to get us out of “sustainability trap” - sustainability is just the start