WHAT IF - there was a technology that allowed people in a room to ask completely anonymous questions, with no recourse to their reputation or job or status? Humans are social primates -we REALLY care about social appearance, status and public perception. Our default mode when we see a novel event is to look to others -if they are agitated, then we become so, if they are unconcerned, then so are we. This was highlighted in the 'Smoke Under the Door' study where 90% of people failed to react/report smoke coming under a door in their room if two other (confederate) humans seemed unconcerned.
I just finished reading chapter 5 of Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows. Chapter 5 is about system traps. The world has fallen into every single trap, with one possible exception - policy resistence - and the only reason we haven't fallen into that one is the glaring lack of policy.
I’m curious to know where the questions came from. Were they solicited from listeners from a previous podcast? The one beginning, “The world currently uses 19 TW”, was a good appraisal of our predicament.
I just finished reading chapter 5 of Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows. Chapter 5 is about system traps. The world has fallen into every single trap, with one possible exception - policy resistence - and the only reason we haven't fallen into that one is the glaring lack of policy.
I’m curious to know where the questions came from. Were they solicited from listeners from a previous podcast? The one beginning, “The world currently uses 19 TW”, was a good appraisal of our predicament.
Except that as of the end of 2022, the world uses 20 TW.