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Perspective: total reboot


By toon ketels - Posted on 01 March 2009

Juan Enriquez @ TED: Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis

According to wiktionary the word crisis (plural crises) means:

  • A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
  • An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
  • A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die.
  • (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
  • (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

These days, whenever the word crisis is droped, we immediately thing about the devestating, world order changing global financial crisis of 2008 and behond. And when checked with the above, it's hard to argue that the current events don't live up to their definition.

But, to put things into perspective, or shed some positive light, it's sometimes good to have a long-term view. Seeing the bigger picture can turn this armagedon type crisis in something more like a 'minor setback'. Which, ofcourse, should make us feel better!

One way of getting this long-term view is by watching the TED talk by Juan Enriques: Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis. Juan Enriquez argues that three fundamental trends will forces a major turning point on society as we know it:

  • our increasing ability to engineer microbes
  • our increasing ability to engineer tissues
  • our increasing ability to engineer robots

These three trends will lead to a total reboot of society by the technology wave. So to Juan Enriquez our look on the current financial crisis is best explained using the words of Louis L’Amour:

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished…
That will be the beginning…

Enjoy the talk!

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