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Hope you enjoyed it. Next seminar is Friday, Dec 4th: Rick Prelinger
“Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4”
9:17 PM Nov 18th
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thanks for tuning in. That's tonight's seminar. More on Sander:
9:15 PM Nov 18th
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At some sites in Syria, Sander has explored the tell from the bottom up. which gives a different, detailed story specific to that site...
9:15 PM Nov 18th
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the seminar concludes with a conversation between Stewart & Sander about archaeological practice. Esp. re: Tells ( )
9:13 PM Nov 18th
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but he does admire their tendency to relatively longer term thinking, very different than us.
9:05 PM Nov 18th
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Sander: "China has a lot of problems" addicted to innovation & need massive GDP increase annually...
9:03 PM Nov 18th
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...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.
8:56 PM Nov 18th
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Sander: "climate change is not bad for humanity--but it is very bad for our social structures...
8:54 PM Nov 18th
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in Q&A now... is climate change possibly a positive challenge for us (a sloppy paraphrase of @'s question)
8:53 PM Nov 18th
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we will need to redefine our social structures & institutions....
8:51 PM Nov 18th
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need a complex systems approach, have a serious debate on innovation, and utilize comp. science / modeling tools
8:51 PM Nov 18th
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2) decide the (sustainable) future that we want, 3) battle (with) ourselves to achieve change...
8:49 PM Nov 18th
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now we have the means to control matter, energy, information. to shape future we must 1) understand the innovation process...
8:48 PM Nov 18th
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our innovations have destabilized the world, made it less predictable for us (I am paraphrasing rather badly there, sorry)...
8:46 PM Nov 18th
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Sander sees the current "information revolution" era as opportunity, although it arrives at a very destabilized time...
8:44 PM Nov 18th
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varying from emphasizing the confusing aspects of nature to emphasizing the knowable aspects of nature...
8:43 PM Nov 18th
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basically how humans conceive of their relation to nature. comparing humanity to nature vs nature to humanity...
8:41 PM Nov 18th
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Sander shows a fascinating contrasting of two french terms: "milieu" vs "environnement"
8:34 PM Nov 18th
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Energy revolution c. 1800: we solve the energy problem via fossil fuel. Innovation becomes endemic supply-driven....
8:29 PM Nov 18th
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Caesar reaches a point of frustration when he no longer has treasure and other cultures to raid. that is where the empire begins descent
8:28 PM Nov 18th
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