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Stairway to Heaven<\/a><\/h3>\n

“Let us stop talking about collapse, peak oil, and global weirding and begin a conversation about what is cool and what is uncool.<\/em>“<\/a>
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\n<\/em>In\u00a0Nine to Five<\/em>\u00a0Jane Fonda’s character,\u00a0Judy Bernly,<\/a>\u00a0is the office newbie.\u00a0\u00a0In a scene evoking Lucille Ball on the assembly line, she pushes too many buttons on an enormous Xerox machine and fills the floor with blizzard drifts of copy paper.<\/p>\n

Technocornucopians see the world of the future as a great 3D printer with an unlimited supply reservoir. Push a few buttons and we can fulfill everyone’s wildest dreams. What need have we for terror or strife?\u00a0Vivek Wadhwa, vice president of innovation and research for Singularity University says:<\/p>\n

The next decade will be the most innovative decade in human history: technologies are advancing so rapidly, entire industries will be wiped out and new ones created out of nowhere. \u2026 We don’t think about man-machine convergence or all this sci-fi stuff. We talk about practical implementation of today’s technologies — harnessing advancing technologies to do good for mankind.<\/p>\n

Think of each piece of paper flying out of Judy Bernly’s grasp as just another great solution searching for a problem. Go ahead Judy, push that button again. The machine will know what to do.<\/p>\n

It’s not true that we can’t solve big problems through technology.\u00a0We can, we must, but these four elements\u00a0must all be present:\u00a0Political leaders and the public\u00a0must care to solve a problem;\u00a0institutions must support its solution;\u00a0It must really be a technological problem;\u00a0and we must understand it.\u00a0The Apollo mission, which has become a kind of metaphor for technology’s capacity to solve big problems, met these criteria. But it is an irreproducible model for the future. It is not 1961.<\/p>\n

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Stairway to Heaven “Let us stop talking about collapse, peak oil, and global weirding and begin a conversation about what is cool and what is uncool.“ In\u00a0Nine to Five\u00a0Jane Fonda’s character,\u00a0Judy Bernly,\u00a0is the office newbie.\u00a0\u00a0In a scene evoking Lucille Ball on the assembly line, she pushes too many buttons on an enormous Xerox machine and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8278,7943,8277,786,7598],"class_list":["post-11236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-problem-solving","tag-solutions","tag-technocornucopians","tag-technology","tag-the-great-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11237,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11236\/revisions\/11237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}