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Technology

• What is technology?
• Whats the line between nature and technology?
• Bateson
• Naturalistic understanding of Epistemology
• Our knowing transforms the earth
• Big Bad (SUVs)
• Conscious purpose safety
• Reptilian Brain
• Result less safety
• Fries Taste Good
• The French Fry
• Flavor manufacturing
• Lamb Water Gun Knife now youre cookin

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Technology Issues

• Visible vs. Invisible Technologies
• What technologies become invisible?
• Does technology increase or limit freedom?
• Cars
• Homes
• Cell phones
• Universities
• City streets
• Can we control technology?
• What makes a technology good or bad?

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What is technology?

• Car
• Desk
• Cell-phone
• Voice
• Fire
• Sticks
• Corporation
• Legal System
• Pencil
• Paragraph
• Organizational hierarchy
• Motherly Love
• Street grid
• Irrational vengeance

• Presidential Debate
• Advertisement
• Pain
• The U.S. Constitution
• Tin can
• Ice
• Salt
• Spice
• Grass
• Soybeans
• A cup
• A platoon
• Shock Awe

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Bateson (Conscious Purpose vs. Nature)

• Overview
• Big Take Away Humans as abnormal
• Metaphor Cancerous growth on earth
• Moving through the argument
• Revolution Evolution creates mind (427)
• The population of creatures that escape balance
  explodes (430)
• Homeostatis through feedback mechanism e.g.,
  governor
• Purpose guides selectiveness of consciousness
  (432)
• Selection shaped by evolutionary pressures
• Why worry? Technology (434)
• Purposive consciousness lacks systemic wisdom
• Lack of wisdom always punishesd
• Need more than narrow rationality relax
  arrogance (438)

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How Smart Growth Can Stop SprawlDavid Bollier,
1998

• (A) Automobile addiction
• Proximal rewards distal punishments Addiction
• Subsidized. How?
• Hidden costs of Freedom
• (B) Suburban Sprawl / Urban disinvestment
• Hidden costs traffic, crime, sewer, water,
  schools
• Cities subsidize sprawl
• Inefficient settlement patterns
• (C) Tax System feeds Sprawl
• Tax building, not land
• Tax deduction for mortgage interest

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• (H) Environmental Damage
• Air Pollution
• more travel
• cars emit 1/3 of CO2 Global Warming
• Less Water
• pavement cant absorb water polluted run-off
• Destruction of Natural Habitat
• Wasteful Energy Use
• more travel cost of Defense Budget, Iraq war
• (I) Lose Farmland Open Spaces
• Less top-soil
• Fewer Forests
• Less Wilderness

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• (J) Lower Quality of Life
• Suburban design antisocial
• no public spaces single use zoning
• Children less independence adult interaction
• Elderly isolation if they cant drive
• Normal life is destroying us economically,
  socially, ecologically, and spiritually

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The Polyface Farm

• Principles Why Polyface Farm?
• Diversity Movement Multiple use
• Nature Bats Last

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Diversity / Polyculture / Mimicry
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Comparison of Polyface with Industrial Model

• Who is more richly connected?
• Who has more control? Who has more
  fun/art/beauty?
• Who is more free?

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Identities through Dwelling Jane Jacobs The
Death Life of Great American Cities (1961)

• CH 2 Sidewalks make streets safe
• How are cities different?
• What makes sidewalks safe? Who uses? What
  attracts users? When?
• What types of residents are needed (p. 39)
• CH 3 Sidewalks enable contact
• Enhance t_____ Where does this reside? How is
  it cultivated?
• CH 8 Mixed uses creates synergy
• same space difference purposes on different
  schedules
• three groups w_______, r________, v__________
• more amenities than any group deserves see
  Raken House
• synergy increases choice. More freedom?
• CH 8 Small blocks increase synergy
• Long blocks standardize movement
• Short blocks encourage cut-throughs
• opens up neighborhood for amenities

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• Consciousness
• dangerously selective
• tested for a million years? Good thing?
  Time-frame problem
• Is there a mind in control?
• Pathologies
• drastic changes that cause cascade effect
• dramatic corrections

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How do humans fit in?
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Centrifugal Governor
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Feedback loop for centrifugal governor
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Darwins Finches - Technologies?
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Exponential Population Growth
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Deforestation
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Creation in a Week

• Sunday 1200 m Earth created
• Tuesday 800am First Bacterial Cells
• Thursday midnight First microcosm
• Friday 400pm Microcosms invent sexual
  reproduction
• Saturday 130 am First marine animals
• Saturday 930 am First plants come ashore
• Sat. 1130 am Amphibians insects
• Sat. 450 pm Dinosaurs arrive
• Sat. 530 pm Mammals
• Sat. 945 pm Dinosaurs die out
• Sat. 715 pm Birds
• Sat. 1000 pm Tree-dwelling mammals ? first
  primates
• Sat. 1100 pm Monkeys

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• Sat. 1140 pm Great apes
• Sat. 1152 Southern apes stand up and walk
  on two legs
• Sat. 1157 Southern apes disappear
• Sat. 1156 First human species Homo
  habilis
• Sat. 115630 Homo erectus
• Sat. 125930 Homo sapiens
• Sat. 125949 Mod Humans species in Africa
  Asia
• Sat. 125955 Humans in Europe
• 2/3 sec. lt midnight Written human history