Wisdom insists that we intentionally control gizmo time and be fully present in real time.
As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication — and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have. Here is a direct video link.
Seven years after the Fed’s first Quantitative easing program was launched, one of its original foot soldiers takes stock.
Andrew Huszar is a Fed veteran who served as the “quarterback” for the world’s largest stimulus program by managing the purchase of more than $1 trillion worth of mortgage-backed bonds — only to renounce his support for the entire effort in a 2013 public apology. In a recent interview with CNBC, Huszar insisted the excess liquidity created by the Fed has done more to enrich Wall Street than the average citizen. Here is a direct video link.
Time to sober up. Science alone cannot make up for dumb and wasteful allocation of our resources. Great discussion in this clip:
University of Manchester Professor Kevin Anderson discusses the path of higher temperatures over the next century and what impact agreements reached at the COP 21 Summit in Paris may have on climate change. Here is a direct video link.
And it’s not just planet warming at stake here, it’s also the air we breathe. See: Man makes brick from Beijing’s smog: “Our city is becoming overcrowded by cars and surrounded by chemical engineering. We create more dust by asking for more resources, and we will become dust when all our resources are depleted.”
