Goldilocks Technology – A Preliminary Checklist – Resilience
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resilience
By Nate Hagens, originally published by The Great Simplification
August 12, 2024
(Recorded August 5 2024)
As a problem-solving species, technology is an embedded part of the human experience – we assess, innovate, invent and adapt. But as we move out of the anomalous era we have just lived through and into less stable economic, social, geopolitical and ecological circumstances, humanity will require different kinds of innovation for a livable future.
In this Frankly, Nate offers preliminary guidelines for what might be termed ‘Goldilocks Technology’ – not too hot (dopaminergic gadgets) and not too cold (stone age tech) inventions for the future. Can governance upstream of designers and engineers use prices and policy to incentivize more appropriate and reliable technology? Can values and behavioral choices change demand, shifting the products available toward more sustainable options? What would the materials, supply chains, and disposal of technology that is ‘just right’ look like – and how would it change our wider boundary relationship with the biosphere?
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00:46 – The Carbon Pulse
00:51 – TGS Episode on Goldilocks Technology
02:46 – Planetary boundaries, Overshoot
03:28 – The Five Horsemen
05:35 – Elon Musk’s companies being supported by government subsidies
06:03 – Prices of inputs are wrong
06:11 – Shale oil is the source rock and finite, Art Berman on TGS
06:23 – The true cost of externalities
07:15 – Overton window
08:08 – Energy Primacy
09:00 – The move to a multipolar world
09:18 – Fragility of complex supply chains, reliance on cheap oil
10:07 – Auroville
10:25 – Bricks made from dirt
10:40 – Sodium batteries
11:16 – We recycle 8.5% of global supply chain
11:20 – Roman Krznaric
11:40 – Circular economy in Edo Japan
12:01 – Regenerative innovations, Regenerative economies
12:21 – Primary productivity
12:52 – Industrial Dairy Farms and Ecological Impacts
13:14 – Pricing to include ecological impacts
13:25 – Daniel Schmachtenberger, TGS Episode, link to Naive Progress Paper here as well
16:50 – Wide boundary thinking, Wide Boundary Frankly
18:07 – Optimal foraging theory
18:34 – Economic superorganism
18:44 – Contact movie
By Dave Rollo, Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy
Wetland restoration and conservation, in combination with agricultural stakeholder best management practices, is a promising model for success.
August 15, 2024
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
You see, as we foolishly escaped our ecological context, we recklessly re-fashioned the world so that we are destroying the ecological context crucial to millions of other species—including ourselves, eventually.
August 15, 2024
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I want my garden to be useful. And that means it should produce a harvest that I can use. It also means it should provide home and shelter to as many other beings as possible.
August 14, 2024
Resilience is a program of Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable, resilient communities.
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resilience
By Nate Hagens, originally published by The Great Simplification
August 12, 2024
(Recorded August 5 2024)
As a problem-solving species, technology is an embedded part of the human experience – we assess, innovate, invent and adapt. But as we move out of the anomalous era we have just lived through and into less stable economic, social, geopolitical and ecological circumstances, humanity will require different kinds of innovation for a livable future.
In this Frankly, Nate offers preliminary guidelines for what might be termed ‘Goldilocks Technology’ – not too hot (dopaminergic gadgets) and not too cold (stone age tech) inventions for the future. Can governance upstream of designers and engineers use prices and policy to incentivize more appropriate and reliable technology? Can values and behavioral choices change demand, shifting the products available toward more sustainable options? What would the materials, supply chains, and disposal of technology that is ‘just right’ look like – and how would it change our wider boundary relationship with the biosphere?
Support The Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future
Join our Substack newsletter
Join our Discord channel and connect with other listeners
PDF Transcript
00:46 – The Carbon Pulse
00:51 – TGS Episode on Goldilocks Technology
02:46 – Planetary boundaries, Overshoot
03:28 – The Five Horsemen
05:35 – Elon Musk’s companies being supported by government subsidies
06:03 – Prices of inputs are wrong
06:11 – Shale oil is the source rock and finite, Art Berman on TGS
06:23 – The true cost of externalities
07:15 – Overton window
08:08 – Energy Primacy
09:00 – The move to a multipolar world
09:18 – Fragility of complex supply chains, reliance on cheap oil
10:07 – Auroville
10:25 – Bricks made from dirt
10:40 – Sodium batteries
11:16 – We recycle 8.5% of global supply chain
11:20 – Roman Krznaric
11:40 – Circular economy in Edo Japan
12:01 – Regenerative innovations, Regenerative economies
12:21 – Primary productivity
12:52 – Industrial Dairy Farms and Ecological Impacts
13:14 – Pricing to include ecological impacts
13:25 – Daniel Schmachtenberger, TGS Episode, link to Naive Progress Paper here as well
16:50 – Wide boundary thinking, Wide Boundary Frankly
18:07 – Optimal foraging theory
18:34 – Economic superorganism
18:44 – Contact movie
By Dave Rollo, Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy
Wetland restoration and conservation, in combination with agricultural stakeholder best management practices, is a promising model for success.
August 15, 2024
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
You see, as we foolishly escaped our ecological context, we recklessly re-fashioned the world so that we are destroying the ecological context crucial to millions of other species—including ourselves, eventually.
August 15, 2024
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I want my garden to be useful. And that means it should produce a harvest that I can use. It also means it should provide home and shelter to as many other beings as possible.
August 14, 2024
Resilience is a program of Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable, resilient communities.
Reposting Policy | Privacy Policy
This article was autogenerated from a news feed from CDO TIMES selected high quality news and research sources. There was no editorial review conducted beyond that by CDO TIMES staff. Need help with any of the topics in our articles? Schedule your free CDO TIMES Tech Navigator call today to stay ahead of the curve and gain insider advantages to propel your business!
