Post No.: 0807 Furrywisepuppy says: Design and technology affects us individually and as a society – our lifestyles, jobs, potentials, pastimes, cultures, economics, environments, and thus politics. Automation, usually via technology, can de-skill us, which is fine … Read More
Post No.: 0764 Furrywisepuppy says: If one is young enough, even severe brain tissue loss and surgery can be recovered from and one can still subsequently live a decent independent life – and this is due to neuroplasticity. … Read More
Post No.: 0756 Furrywisepuppy says: Many people from much older generations were raised to be frugal, and they still care about saving every scrap of paper and not wasting food because they lived though times of scarcity and … Read More
Post No.: 0722 Furrywisepuppy says: The most sustainable thing for the environment when it comes to clothes is to buy good enough items, then to wear them as many times as possible. Fix any bits of damage … Read More
Post No.: 0673 Furrywisepuppy says: It’s environmentally unfriendly to think that one must get new stuff when one’s existing stuff works fine; whether it’s phones, clothes, home improvements, cars, etc.. Too many people look for any miniscule … Read More
Post No.: 0624 Fluffystealthkitten says: Some might disagree with this but deep learning (DL) is a subfield of artificial neural networks (ANN), which in turn is a subfield of machine learning (ML), which in turn is a subfield … Read More
Post No.: 0574 Furrywisepuppy says: On the subject of trying to predict what the world’s human population will be in the year 2100, we looked at one hypothesis in Post No.: 0565 that stated that it’ll naturally stabilise … Read More
Post No.: 0565 Furrywisepuppy says: Predicting the long-range future is always difficult, as mentioned in other kinds of contexts before, and this is no different when it comes to predicting what the world’s human population size will be … Read More
Post No.: 0550 Furrywisepuppy says: With ever-advancing technologies, the fleshy human meatbag will increasingly become the limiting factor. For example, vehicles could potentially drive at much higher average speeds on the roads safely… as long as every single … Read More
Post No.: 0493 Furrywisepuppy says: As chewed over in Post No.: 0480 – designers, engineers and inventors (and those who employ or fund them) bear huge ethical responsibilities. It’s not just about considering the life cycle and ecological … Read More
Post No.: 0480 Furrywisepuppy says: We can have different kinds of relationships with tech – they can be in us (e.g. nanotechnology capsules), between us (e.g. phones when making calls), added to us (e.g. prosthetic limbs), be like … Read More
Post No.: 0474 Fluffystealthkitten says: Although considered a ‘trace gas’ in the Earth’s atmosphere, there’s a lot of carbon dioxide in the air and depleting the amount of trees and forests on the ground is not a good … Read More
Post No.: 0467 Fluffystealthkitten says: Carbon offsetting strategies have their supporters and critics. For their supporters, it seems to make logical sense that it’s okay to release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, such as methane and … Read More
Post No.: 0438 Furrywisepuppy says: Indium for touchscreens, rhenium for jet turbines, neodymium for magnets in motors, lithium for batteries, helium for MRI scanners… These things we need (or want) for our technological civilisation are all rare and … Read More
Post No.: 0398 Fluffystealthkitten says: Electronic devices and apps, such as mobile phones and social media apps, bring enormous benefits, including connecting users from all over the world so that we can keep in touch, share our stories … Read More
Post No.: 0380 Furrywisepuppy says: For many here in the UK, it took a highly visual documentary (Blue Planet II) on plastic pollution gathering around innocent islands across the world, and being able to directly trace some of … Read More
Post No.: 0356 Fluffystealthkitten says: The single-use plastic carrier bag charge in the UK, introduced since 2015, has been quite successful in decreasing the amount of plastic bags used. This was mentioned in Post No.: 0346. It’s a … Read More
Post No.: 0346 Furrywisepuppy says: Personal responsibility is something that a lot of us don’t seem to want to take when it comes to collective action problems such as looking after the environment – or at least intentions … Read More
Post No.: 0327 Fluffystealthkitten says: You probably already know about photovoltaic solar panels, solar thermal energy, hydroelectric dams, wind turbines, bioenergy and geothermal energy when it comes to renewable energy sources or technologies. There’s also nuclear power, as … Read More
Post No.: 0295 Furrywisepuppy says: Putting a monetary price on natural resources and the environment may help us to see their value to us – but a danger of doing so is that governments start to commoditise natural … Read More
