Sander van der Leeuwilta on ilmestynyt mielenkiintoinen puheenvuoro, jossa hän resoneeraa että nykyihmisen kyvyttömyys ratkaista pitkän aikavälin ongelmia on evoluution tulosta. Videolla “Archelogy of Innovation” (maksullinen, vaatii rekisteröitymisen), hän selittää että
But by 300,000 years ago the human brain had developed a sufficiently complex short-term working memory to keep 7 (plus-or-minus 2) considerations in mind at once. We could handle problems of multi-dimensionality.
The brain has not progressed since then, nor has needed to. The skills of innovation moved on from the biological brain to social constructs and modes of communication and information processing. That bootstrapping process continues to this day. The cave paintings show that cognitive agility reached the point of being able to reduce 3 dimensions to a representative 2 dimensions, for instance.
Niinpä ilmiöitä, joiden elinkaari kattaa enemmän kuin yhden sukupolven, ei yksikertaisesti kyetä normaalisti edes havaitsemaan, saati tunnistamaan ongelmiksi. Tuttu teema: “Historiasta ei opita mitään”.
But we have become “disturbance dependent.” As our cities and density of communications grow, they create ever more difficult problems, for which we have to innovate ever more sophisticated solutions. Technology is “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all.”
Vaikket halua maksaa videosta, niin lue ainakin yhteenveto.
