16 korrents from this recording
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0:02:24 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI think that let's say from the beginning of mankind going back 200,000 years, the products that we have designed have separated us from nature. And it's ironic that the things that we designed and produced as humankind, those are exactly the things that separated us.
0:02:57 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsEverybody talks about intelligence these days, but I like to think that nature has kind of wisdom that exists beyond intelligence or above intelligence, and it's that wisdom that we're trying to tap into through technology.
0:06:36 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsWell, first of all, yes, they're connected, but that network stops when there is a physical gap. That network does not necessarily enable the whales in the Dominican to connect with an olive tree in Israel to connect with a weeping willow in Montana.
0:10:16 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo we keep coming back to this answer of nature wants to increase information, but decrease entropy. So find order, but constantly increase the information scale.
0:22:42 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo if you think about entire all of nature, let's say all of living systems as a matrix that runs across two axes one is material sophistication, which is terribly relevant for designers, and the other is communication. The termites ace on communication, but their material sophistication is crap.
0:28:05 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo if you can predict it doesn't count as emergence, actually.
0:46:42 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsWith silkworms, absolutely let's not modify it genetically. Let's not modify it genetically. And then some. Because why did we get there to begin with 4,000 years ago in the Silk Road? And we should never get to a point where we evolve life for the service of mankind at the risk of these wonderful creatures across the across the kingdom of life. I don't think about the same kind of ethical range when I think about bacteria.
0:54:37 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsWhat we don't want to happen with AGI, we want to happen with synthetic biology. What we don't want to happen online and software with language, we want for it to happen with bio-based materials.
0:56:14 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsThese incredible life forms are communicating using a different language than ours. We use language models, they use molecular models. At the moment where we can parse, we can decode these molecular moments is when we can start having a conversation with plants.
0:57:38 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsBecause right now we are using drones to take photos of crops, of corn, that look bad. And when we take that photo, it's already too late.
1:01:08 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAnd the way of being in the physical world today is really not in tune with the time dimension of the natural world at all, and that needs to change.
1:04:28 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsBut when you look into the fragrance and you understand that in order to get to this bio-derived fragrance, you blew through 10,000 bushes of rose to create 5 mL of a rose fragrance. And all these 10,000 bushes of rose, they take space, they take water management, and so much waste.
1:05:40 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAnd when you think about a product and you think about a shoe or a chair or a perfume or a building, you don't stop at the object. You want to go all the way to the system.
1:12:59 · watch on youtube.com↗
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Beauty is agency: a thing is beautiful because it has agency, not because of how it looks.
Their wordsTo me, beauty is agency. To me, something that has agency, it is beautiful.
1:15:19 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo I think the future of design is in that soft control, is in the ability to design highly controlled systems that enable the loss of control.
2:14:51 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI think to the younger generation, I say, don't think of your career. A career is something that is imposed upon you. Think of your calling. That's something that's innately and directionally moves you, and it's something that transcends a career.