Just seen one of the best presentations I've seen in a long while in terms of its vision, provocation and inspiration by Bruce Mau. He talked about the whole Massive Change project and how he sees it developing into massive change 2.0.
His call to arms was that planners need to think of themselves as designers because both are about imagining the future. I guess the thing we need to do is do more doing. Here's some of the stuff he talked about:
Ray Kurzweil and the fact that we now double technological capacity every 12 months which means in 20 years we have 1 million times the capacity to shape the world.
That design is not simply the visual, it's about sustainable ideas to solve problems.
"Now that we can do everything what will we do?"
A conversation with Dean Kamen where he learned the average speed of the car is 8.1 miles/hour, and 43% of its fuel consumption comes from when it's standing still. The Segway Dean created is (at 12 mph) 50% faster than the average car needs to be and uses only 1/60 of the resources.
As a global culture, we produce 100 billion images every year. (No wonder image based advertising is dead.)
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