1/ As we approach the end of 2020–
a REMINDER of the power of RESILIENCE.
When things seem like total disasters—politics, poverty, pandemic—it is because of REALISM that they are...
...which gives way to conditional OPTIMISM that our globally interconnected, market-driven...
a REMINDER of the power of RESILIENCE.
When things seem like total disasters—politics, poverty, pandemic—it is because of REALISM that they are...
...which gives way to conditional OPTIMISM that our globally interconnected, market-driven...
https://twitter.com/wolfejosh/status/1237158293606457345
2/...highly competitive whether
-in SCIENCE via methods of conjecture + refutation
-in PRODUCTS via better, cheaper, faster, more convenient
-in INVESTORS in self-interest competing to be earlier than others, funneling funds MOST likely to be lost for slim chance of big gains
-in SCIENCE via methods of conjecture + refutation
-in PRODUCTS via better, cheaper, faster, more convenient
-in INVESTORS in self-interest competing to be earlier than others, funneling funds MOST likely to be lost for slim chance of big gains
3/ Which have driven
-global communication costs to near ZERO
-processor computation + video rendering to exponentially better quality
-frictionless exchange of scientific information to model in DAYS(!) + manufacture in MONTHS(!) a vaccine
-with a system of safety + testing...
-global communication costs to near ZERO
-processor computation + video rendering to exponentially better quality
-frictionless exchange of scientific information to model in DAYS(!) + manufacture in MONTHS(!) a vaccine
-with a system of safety + testing...
4/ And turn UNDERESTIMATION—of the severity of our IGNORANCE of the impending impact of a pooly understood virus less than 1 year ago...
to the UNDERESTIMATION—of the intensity of our REDUCTION in that IGNORANCE using science, tools of technology + competitive human interests..
to the UNDERESTIMATION—of the intensity of our REDUCTION in that IGNORANCE using science, tools of technology + competitive human interests..
5/ Human ingenuity is the one inexhaustible resource.
We do not know when or where our next crisis will appear—but we know with certainty it will and we also know we will rise with RESILIENCE to reduce our ignorance and against all odds + conflicts, coordinate to solve it.
We do not know when or where our next crisis will appear—but we know with certainty it will and we also know we will rise with RESILIENCE to reduce our ignorance and against all odds + conflicts, coordinate to solve it.
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