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  1. Hope you enjoyed it. Next seminar is Friday, Dec 4th: Rick Prelinger “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4” http://bit.ly/sflandscape4
  2. thanks for tuning in. That's tonight's seminar. More on Sander: http://shesc.asu.edu/vander...
  3. At some sites in Syria, Sander has explored the tell from the bottom up. which gives a different, detailed story specific to that site...
  4. the seminar concludes with a conversation between Stewart & Sander about archaeological practice. Esp. re: Tells ( http://bit.ly/2Vfk23 )
  5. but he does admire their tendency to relatively longer term thinking, very different than us.
  6. Sander: "China has a lot of problems" addicted to innovation & need massive GDP increase annually...
  7. ...we will survive but there will be a lot of collateral damage." that is in the perspective of the long now--it is so much bigger than us.
  8. Sander: "climate change is not bad for humanity--but it is very bad for our social structures...
  9. in Q&A now... is climate change possibly a positive challenge for us (a sloppy paraphrase of @zander's question)
  10. we will need to redefine our social structures & institutions....
  11. need a complex systems approach, have a serious debate on innovation, and utilize comp. science / modeling tools
  12. 2) decide the (sustainable) future that we want, 3) battle (with) ourselves to achieve change...
  13. now we have the means to control matter, energy, information. to shape future we must 1) understand the innovation process...
  14. our innovations have destabilized the world, made it less predictable for us (I am paraphrasing rather badly there, sorry)...
  15. Sander sees the current "information revolution" era as opportunity, although it arrives at a very destabilized time...
  16. varying from emphasizing the confusing aspects of nature to emphasizing the knowable aspects of nature...
  17. basically how humans conceive of their relation to nature. comparing humanity to nature vs nature to humanity...
  18. Sander shows a fascinating contrasting of two french terms: "milieu" vs "environnement"
  19. Energy revolution c. 1800: we solve the energy problem via fossil fuel. Innovation becomes endemic supply-driven....
  20. Caesar reaches a point of frustration when he no longer has treasure and other cultures to raid. that is where the empire begins descent