One of the sites I go to often for inspiration and wonder is TED. So - just having posted the note about drones I headed to TED and found this little gem. Enjoy.
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I'll admit that one of my first thoughts after watching this has been along the lines of "no wonder that pharmaceutical patents have been the sticking point for the TPPA over recent months." Just imagine getting a patent on an environment in Mukherjee's "upside down" view of the metaphor? There are hugely powerful and rich corporates influencing this.
So - it's worth the 17 minutes just for a new view on medicine and science and models and just how little we actually know and how much we spend on understanding how little we know. But from a wider perspective - given that we have models of almost everything - from finance and business to education - and we keep investing in the same model. What if our view of the model is wrong, or at least there is an alternate that makes greater impact possible? Didn't Iread somewhere just last week that the models for climate change are both inaccurate and the underlying physics inaccurately applied? Hmmm. More reason to question everything, trust no one? In this age of information we are learning (slowly) that we often have our destiny at our fingertips. |
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