The way we make things is out of tune with the time dimension of the natural world, and that has to change even if it means designing on the scale of centuries.

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• Another hundredfold of scale would not transform anything; the field is back in the age of research, only now with big computers. ISIlya Sutskever25 Nov 2025similar wording
• Expecting technology to keep accelerating is a bias of our particular moment; for most of human history the tools did not change at all. AFAdam Frank22 Dec 2024similar wording
• We are leaving the age of replication for an age of design, in which minds are built to a plan rather than copied without being understood. RSRichard Sutton26 Sept 2025similar wording
• Human-centred design ignores sustainability, inequity and bias, so design has to move to humanity-centred design that covers the whole ecosystem and the long term. DNDon Norman28 Mar 2023similar wording

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