Foresight Engine

Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Sidewalks & roads should convert energy from footsteps & cars into electricity while also monitoring traffic flow.

Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Hospitals and medical centres anonymously collect and pool patient data which is the open to the public for stats and research.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Green architecture is integrated into all building roofs with sensors to detect air pollution and plant needs.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Citizens in sister cities connect one to one virtually to share visualizations of their community's challenges and approaches.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Create more open access to government procedures via weekly updates to allow citizens to engage and contribute to policy making.

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Investigation in response to:

How to make sure that the information is in safe? Quite many would be interested in that kind of information e.g. for commercial use.

How do you define safe? What concerns might you have with submitting your health/medical data?

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Momentum in response to:

Could add automatic color-adjusting roof surfacing, trapping or repelling heat to contribute to building climate control.

Great addition! Rainwater could also be collected and stored to feed the plants and assist in climate control.

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Adaptation in response to:

What will be done with the collected data? Is there a direct re-action to certain scenarios?

The plants would help increase oxygen levels in the city and the air condition detectors would monitor this progress

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Apartment buildings install auto-detecting recycling shoots for each type of material which can be collected separately and reused easier.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Reimagine schools as a community based learning and teaching with contribution from all citizens. Everyone is a teacher and student.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Citizens submit their commuting routes online and public transit/car pooling adjusts the routes to the needs of the citizens.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Structures like this are a part of everyday local governments & are a forum for the public on how to address issues & crowdsource solutions.

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Momentum in response to:

Though some people should oversee this, to ensure that young people aren't being told untruths or brainwashed by particular philosophies

Absolutely! There will still be education leaders, but teaching is not reserved for just one person.

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Adaptation in response to:

Absolutely! There will still be education leaders, but teaching is not reserved for just one person.

Also it is important that the adults are the ones learning too - both from the children and each other. School is not just for the young.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Agency, engagement, systems thinking, problem solving and other ways of being and thinking are emphasized in schools instead of content.

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Momentum in response to:

Could link to down-sliding scale, reducing the cost of a ticket as ride efficiency rises, re-crediting the change to a stable account.

Traffic patterns could also be build around these higher occupancy routes than individual vehicles to increase efficiency and incentive

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Momentum in response to:

Voting could work, but comments need work: if there was a way to filter out unproductive comments, that'd be clutch

Citizens could vote for different comments and a merit system could be used to filter productivity of comments for each user?

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Momentum in response to:

I like the Freire/Horton influence, but like Grandiloqs says, how would it work without a common goal? Does "free thinking" exist?

There could be one day a week dedicated to this, with different themes and challenges that are to be addressed.

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Investigation in response to:

Who would decide whose these "education leaders" are?

Right now they are the teachers, principals, and curriculum makers of the current system. Do you think it is effective how we choose them?

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Put sensors in roads to automatically detect when maintenance is needed and when accidents occur.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

One day a month (different days for each), citizens are required to assist in environmental care and educate themselves.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Each city collects compost and uses it to create soil to grow local food

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Investigation in response to:

Many teachers leave high-school, train and then start teaching, without any world experience. This, I think, could be changed.

Is it not the training of the teachers that should be changed? Perhaps they should have to go on exchange or see various paths of life?

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Adaptation in response to:

It should be easily done at the scale of blocks

And used it community gardens? Perhaps enhancing green architecture?

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Smart kitchens are connected to grocery stores to determine what is needed and recommend to users how much to buy in order to waste less.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Connect communities in different countries to share perspectives and approaches on similar challenges.

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Momentum in response to:

I agree If teachers-to-be have travelled and inspired by the opportunities/challenges of this world, they will convey this to their students

Teachers can be matched with teachers in other cultures to share experiences/challenges as well in order to broaden perspective & knowledge

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Adaptation in response to:

both activities should come from the person itself, it won't work if it is forced

Good point. Then opportunities should be made in terms of work/responsibilities for the possibility of this or other causes.

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Momentum in response to:

And not only with other teachers. After all, we are all teachers in our own way

Agreed! They could shadow different jobs or life paths and here stories from many people

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Create more community spaces so people can engage in quarterly neighbourhood engagements.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Governments should create visual simulations of policies and show how new policies can affect preexisting structures to aid in public voting

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Pool ideas of how to create social good and connect the rising beneficial corps with citizens to maximize efforts.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Have forums like this specific to different groups (youth, seniors, minority groups) to figure out how to better service their needs.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Create a place for citizens to see all the different municipal projects going on so they can see and coordinate how they can assist.

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Adaptation in response to:

Where will this pool be housed?

This information should be accessible on a website as well as creating an app to see which ongoing projects are nearby.

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Investigation in response to:

Priority in education should be changed.Youth need quality.Adults need availability.A centralized online solution could solve both.

Do you think there needs to be two separate entities as there is now? Or an integrated one?

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Momentum in response to:

buildings or families may enter a plant adoption program. Online tracking allow the progress of the project to be tax deductible.

What would you envision this plant adoption looking like? What would they need to do? Take care of the plants?

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Momentum in response to:

This would be great - it would need to be well designed to not overwhelm people with info and make it easy to get involved.

There could be filters to highlight the most significant implications/links & bring them to the foreground, but keep the whole system avail

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Momentum in response to:

Having this also so that people can build on those and bring others in their influence to improve can help

I agree, good coordinated efforts can be very successful. With location based information, the coordination can improve!

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Momentum in response to:

An integrated centralized system would b ideal.That would allow better quality monitoring,instead of having many different separate entities

And it could lead to an increase in learning once leaving school officially because there is a more seamless transition.

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Momentum in response to:

First we must decide whether the current methodology is the best pedagogy available.And then choose the best way to make it available.

I definitely think that a reevaluation of pedagogy is what is needed in the education system - not just curriculum editing.

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Investigation in response to:

Yes.And it would make specialized educational experiences and solutions to be available to everyone, improving the system as a whole.

What specialized experiences did you have in mind? Do you mean customized teaching methods or something else?

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Momentum in response to:

Consolidating the ongoing projects within a platform or a visualization space helps mediate needs of the present.

And using location based information can show you which projects are nearby and continuously update users on the steps and when to assist

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Momentum in response to:

what about,at least to take care of and place as many as possible flowerpots outside walls of their houses and buildings."vertical gardens"

And use soil from local compost to feed the vertical gardens!

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Reintroduce physical "philosopher's cafes" in cities to bring people together monthly. Can partner virtually with other cities.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Design the infrastructure of new cities to have collective systems for waste, recycling, compost - just as there is a sewer system.

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Adaptation in response to:

fascinating idea, who hosts and manages these philosopher's cafes or salons?

Different cafes can be hosted by specialists in different backgrounds. But then there would be interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Momentum in response to:

Different cafes can be hosted by specialists in different backgrounds. But then there would be interdisciplinary collaboration.

There would also then need to be a time set up for implementation instead of just contemplation! Bring the doers together with the thinkers!

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Momentum in response to:

Could easily be run out of/networked between public universities.

This is a great idea! And bring students, professors, experts, and anyone interested together for discussion!

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Adaptation in response to:

Yes. And promote these initiatives with tax deduction.

And use sensors to detect and give feedback about how well the vertical gardens are being taken care of to determine commitment.

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Momentum in response to:

Can this work then be translated into some kind of a social credit - an incentive for people to help out?

Something along the lines of trades hours that can be exchanged for other work?

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Investigation in response to:

Basically.Education can improve by incorporating empirical advances.What is needed is a better integrated system to share those experiences

I agree about the integrated system. What do you mean by incorporating empirical advances?

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

While incentives are okay, passionate engagement with conscious intent is what is really needed to transform our communities.

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Momentum in response to:

While incentives are okay, passionate engagement with conscious intent is what is really needed to transform our communities.

What is needed is a revolution in education to teach agency and deliberate examination of system wide cause and effect.

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Investigation in response to:

Look rural. Small rural communities are well interconnected. Take this mindset and bring it urban for a connected and resilient community

We all came from rural communities. How do you think this got lost as people moved to cities in history? What can we do to bring it back?

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

When governments are faced with a problem, hold a forum with children/teens to brainstorm and bring up innovative solutions.

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Momentum in response to:

What forms of engagement would encourage the type of passion needed.

Creating visualizations and scenarios while teaching systems thinking to show the interconnectedness of actions can inspire the engagement.

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Momentum in response to:

Here's a place to apply game tech and big data insights--we need a real science of how to encourage civic engagement.

When people have their opinion listened to and see positive feedback, the efforts snowball and can exponentially increase engagement.

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Critical Imagination in response to:

What are the barriers to creating these new civic innovations?

With the abundance of connectivity now, do you think we even need government representatives? Is this limiting civic engagement?

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Investigation in response to:

the teaching aspect here is very important to begin the shift of mindset where we encourage innovation and engagement

How would you imagine actualizing this in and/or outside the classroom?

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Momentum in response to:

why not engage children and teens at all levels of governance? perhaps even analyse + implement the creative ideas

Absolutely why not? They are the ones that these policies and ideas will eventually be affecting the most!

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Investigation in response to:

Its more the mindset of rural communities that may engage on their neighbour for support which doesn't happen as often in urban environments

I fully agree. How do you think we can bring the neighbourhood feeling back into urban settings?

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Investigation in response to:

What is the ideal number in a community (150?). What human elements need to be reintroduced or reframed in larger communities?

Are you basing the 150 off of Dunbar's number?

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Antagonism in response to:

This is a great idea and the best way to reach children and teens is through mobile apps.

Not necessarily the best way. A combination of real life meet up for local youth + coordinated digital connection from afar has advantages

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Investigation in response to:

The youth boards that I know fail because of selection bias - different thinking comes from different people who we need to reach out to

Selection of the youth on the board is bias? What if it was open to everyone and coordinated to allow online interaction from others as well

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Momentum in response to:

Raise the status of childrearing - Professionalize and reward foster parents and adoptive parents who take on our forgotten kids.

Also make child raising schools. While parents may have different values, there are certain development stages that should be recognized.

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Adaptation in response to:

Roads that can repair themselves like living tissue, thereby eliminating potholes.

Self healing concrete is in the works!

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Momentum in response to:

YES! There are many non-subjective right answers that most parents don't know and others don't follow.

Most definitely in terms of biological and psychological stages that are common to all humans.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

With the abundance of connectivity now, do we need government representatives? Can we now represent ourselves with big data computers?

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Investigation in response to:

ones I've worked with either are open application or nominated by teachers (which attracts a certain type). I like layers with online too

In the ones that you have been involved with in the past. Why have they failed? What makes you think it was about the selection?

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Adaptation in response to:

I also think creating the time and space for parents to think and talk and make their parenting plan intentionally is great and gets results

A school for conscious intentional parenting! Free and accessible online and in community?

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Investigation in response to:

The holy grail, going from ideation to execution! What new tools or systems of the 21st century will help us solve flip this dilemma?

Do you think glocalization is valuable here? We can coordinate and combine efforts online and then implement strategies ourselves first?

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Critical Imagination in response to:

What are the barriers to creating these new civic innovations?

Demographics lead democracy. How can citizens be accurately informed in order to make decisions with so much bias and media influence?

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Antagonism in response to:

Direct democracy is now unlockable with modern social networks and technology penetration.

Demographics lead democracy. How can citizens be accurately informed in order to make decisions with so much bias and media influence?

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Adaptation in response to:

I love the idea of trans-spatial governance communities. Can you say more?

I don't really see why citizens should have ideas and wait for the government to do something about it? Be active and make the change.

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Momentum in response to:

Where do you draw the line between the public will and expert opinion?

This is HUGE! The crux of democracy is it not?

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Adaptation in response to:

I agree, but could you design/fund & build a road yourself? Roads cost btwen $2.5-$10 million USD per mile. Public goods require big funds.

Perhaps not fund, but with the diverse communities and open resources we have now, design maybe.

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Investigation in response to:

Perhaps not fund, but with the diverse communities and open resources we have now, design maybe.

I keep coming up with ideas for funding, like govt preapproved tools/resources and integrated system project analysis, but red tape...

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Investigation in response to:

Any other kind of system is hardly any better... Enlightened oligarchy could be awesome ..in theory. Democracy is not a problem. People are.

How do we address the people problem?

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Investigation in response to:

I am highly sceptical. As a former transportation engineer, I can pretty much promise you this wouldn't work & would be dangerous.

Haha fair enough. But what if you were in the community and planned it for us? It worked successfully and the plan was used again?

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Momentum in response to:

Like the idea, but isn't that basically what taxes are?

This is maybe what taxes should be!

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Momentum in response to:

Tell me more! How does Athenian Democracy work?

Wikipedia tells me it is a form of direct democracy where the public are involved in govt w/o reps. But same problem-how to educate citizens

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Investigation in response to:

That is what planning & engineering companies are for! :-)

Haha okay so then we let citizens assist in choosing government contractors?

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Investigation in response to:

The greater connectivity is actually making their role more important. Someone has to hold the other side of the conversation.

What is the other side of the conversation?

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Investigation in response to:

Use technology to establish a "good citizen" measure, where citizens are assessed and rewarded for positively contributing to their society.

To what end? Gamification? Incentives like tax deduction? Extra voting right/political say? What rewards?

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Momentum in response to:

exactly. uneducated citizens will take their nation backward.

It keeps coming back to how to create informed, engaged, critical, problem-solving, systems thinking citizens. Education revolution time?

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Antagonism in response to:

Perhaps it is less about education and more about time. Most of us do not have the time to dedicate to these issues. We can't be our own rep

Most of "us" on here maybe, but the general population? If we were all informed, what would be more important to contribute time towards?

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Momentum in response to:

change life/work balance to include 1 day a week to engage in local/regional... issues. Only way to get people involved is to give them time

If everyone worked less and contributed to community more, there would be more jobs, better functioning communities + increased satisfaction

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Momentum in response to:

Nice idea; some cities have that already in the form of "advisory committees"

Thank you for collaborating and getting here together. Advisory committees should be more rampant then?

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Momentum in response to:

The idea is to reverse the trend where people are delegating more and more of their lives to government and to re-engage them

I fully support the reengagement, but what sort of rewards would influence people to engage in the program? Or is it just status?

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Investigation in response to:

Yes! Great idea. :-)

Are the advisory committees currently open to the public? Or is it experts in the field?

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Investigation in response to:

Yes! That's what they say, can you tell my boss for me? But the challenge is to ensure that the extra time 'off' is used for engagement

Haha sure ;) My default is there is lack of motivation/engagement bcuz of problems in education. What do you think is the reason?

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Antagonism in response to:

Could be a combination of status and financial. Financial could be commensurate with the savings governments would make as a result.

Great idea for the commensurate. However, incentives are limited & can backfire and impact the original agency people had for engagement

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Adaptation in response to:

that puts the responsibility on the education system to keep up with the technological advancement.

Or does it put the technology at a responsibility to be educate-able?

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Use technology to connect citizens of diff cities/countries/cultures to increase empathic understanding and macroscopic/global awareness

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Investigation in response to:

A lot of expats within a country send their remittance out of the country how can we inject a part of it back to the local economy?

Why does it need to get injected back into the local economy?

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Momentum in response to:

I think it could be both limited and more involved; decentralised but active in monitoring / managing your life.

Like a more lateralized, decentralized management?

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Investigation in response to:

definitely!

My default is revamping the education system. How could you see this happening?

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Momentum in response to:

I am sure you are right, but I also think the luxury of time and access to entryways, as well as cultural barriers decrease engagement.

I agree about time - I liked your idea about designated time for community work, I had posted something similar earlier.

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Investigation in response to:

I am sure you are right, but I also think the luxury of time and access to entryways, as well as cultural barriers decrease engagement.

What sort of cultural barriers do you think there are?

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Momentum in response to:

More trans-spatial, I think. Like FB from your home government, no matter which country you lived in.

Haha love it! Imagine if people checked in on government and policy status as much as facebook! That's brilliant!

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Momentum in response to:

the way i see it is by equipping students with not only the technology but also the mindset to learn and adopt new technologies.

Certainly. But how could you help them reach this mindset?

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Momentum in response to:

Will we need physical "service centers" and lots of civil servants when things become virtual & automated?

No. This will free up time for people to consciously look at the direction & reasons for the services rather than still running the rat race

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Momentum in response to:

Storytelling is key to creating empathic understanding and creating more of a global mindset. Can tech improve storytelling?

With online communication and translation tech, stories can be told across previously unconquerable barriers!

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Adaptation in response to:

Storytelling is key to creating empathic understanding and creating more of a global mindset. Can tech improve storytelling?

Availability of video creating tools can improve visualizations and storytelling and putting it online can increase potential audience.

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Antagonism in response to:

Availability of video creating tools can improve visualizations and storytelling and putting it online can increase potential audience.

But at the same time, too many videos/stories can dilute and desensitize. How can we avoid this?

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Investigation in response to:

when it becomes a lifestyle. a good example is smart phone and social media. My kids check wikipedia whenever they want to look something up

And what resource would you want them to have access to with this tech? Certain knowledge? How is this monitored for bias?

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Investigation in response to:

collective intelligence, anyone?

The previous innovation? Or what we are all doing here today? ;)

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Investigation in response to:

Simply, a consolidated database of sponsorship, ranked and sorted by trust. The word product could be seen as a politician or a law.

Sort of like a massive crowdsourced and consolidated product review?

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Momentum in response to:

Especially for the elderly

Especially for everyone! I think the significance of human contact is being swept under the rug in the excitement about new tech.

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Investigation in response to:

monitoring has been and always be a challenge. Privacy too. so i will define access with "relevant". what defines relevant? thats debatable.

So you think we should establish a database of knowledge that is easily accessible and this will help educate citizens?

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Investigation in response to:

Well, I think for a lot of people they think of elected officials as 'untouchables' in offices that they themselves do not belong in.

And you think this is a product of culture? I was say it's a product of lack of agency.

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Adaptation in response to:

And you think this is a product of culture? I was say it's a product of lack of agency.

But that might be my cultural bias haha!

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Momentum in response to:

I fear the day automatic algorithms levy fines, render judgement & change lives. Credit checks on steroids for everyghing.

Hopefully we will have citizens who are not just connected online, but connected to each other socially and can overcome this.

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Momentum in response to:

only to give space for more services and give time for personal social interactions rather than waiting for hours to be served at a gov cntr

Fair, but this time for personal/social interaction is often not being used as such especially with younger generations.

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Investigation in response to:

The gap between government and everyone else is huge - how do I engage with them, talk to language of politics? That is beyond my reach.

But is it beyond your reach to become a politician and become that official?

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Momentum in response to:

The gap between government and everyone else is huge - how do I engage with them, talk to language of politics? That is beyond my reach.

As many have said here, we should change the language of politics to more open, accessible and transparent process.

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Adaptation in response to:

As many have said here, we should change the language of politics to more open, accessible and transparent process.

I imagine that many politicians would be very supportive in clearing up a convoluted and coming to be archaic process.

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Investigation in response to:

the question is who are "we"? can we limit the role of building a knowledge base to specific people?

We can be everyone. But I still don't understand how just this library of knowledge will help create engaged citizens. I think we need more

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Investigation in response to:

... in my office who don't feel like they can engage in my world? And i'm nowhere near the level of a politician. Make sense?

Is this not more of a learned behaviour than a cultural difference though? If they had education, time and the avenues would this disappear?

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Adaptation in response to:

Agreed!!

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Investigation in response to:

i doubt there will ever be a single library of knowledge. People need to know how to seek knowledge. Aware citizens will be engaged.

But this is an inherent issue! How do we create aware citizens?

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Adaptation in response to:

Culture is exactly learned behavior :) So much beyond education, intrenched behaviors and cultural norms can defy many an education.

I suppose. I was thinking of culture as more ethnic/traditions. Fair point.

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Investigation in response to:

You cant! not until every individual wants to be ware and engaged.

So then it comes back to education? To showing people they have the opportunity for this no?

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Momentum in response to:

We need all generations to feel a sense of civic duty. Older generations feel they can retire and check out of society.

You are totally correct! Elders should be sharing their experience and generatively, not selfishly kicking back at the golf course :)

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Momentum in response to:

exactly. it gets back to education.

Haha I think we were commenting from two sides of the same coin the whole time :)

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Adaptation in response to:

Culture is so much deeper than that. i don't have traditions or an 'ethnic' identity, but culture dictates much of my behavior.

I hated to even use the word ethnic but I wasn't sure how to convey what I meant. Culture dictates our daily heuristics.

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Momentum in response to:

I know what you meant! I like how you have put it here though, "culture dictates our daily heuristics."

To change society and the way individuals operate, we have to change the daily heuristics to some degree.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

To change society and the way individuals operate, we have to change our daily heuristics. How can we do this?

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Investigation in response to:

I'm off to bed, nice chatting with you!

Goodnight! You as well! Are you futressa on twitter?

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Momentum in response to:

One point not emphasized: what is the vision for civic innovation? What are we trying to fix or optimize? Then we can innovate together.

Futures Studies/Strategic Foresight for systems thinking and world futures is calling your name!

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Investigation in response to:

numbers show that its true and on the increase

This is a measure of quantity not quality though?

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Momentum in response to:

One point not emphasized: what is the vision for civic innovation? What are we trying to fix or optimize? Then we can innovate together.

In seriousness, this is huge. Cities/communities should establish a vision for themselves and begin to implement changes to actualize it.

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Investigation in response to:

exactly. there is also a counter argument that it doesn't reflect the real connections. but that shouldn't stop us from using it as a proxy.

We have been talking about civic engagement, but with social tech, its increase social contact but what about social engagement?

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Create a neighbourhood social network to notify when people are open for visitors, are moving in, need help etc to improve community

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Investigation in response to:

Great idea! You could even make it collaborative to some extent where people can build on the ideas of others towards solving the problem.

Much like we are doing now. Why are we doing this without reward and why are others not though?

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Investigation in response to:

As long as we can create AI that utilizes true logic, reason, and empathy, we should be better off.

Better off than what?

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Momentum in response to:

We view physical infrastructure as relatively permanent. Should it be reframed as ad hoc capacity that is responsive to new innovations?

Good infrastructure should be adaptable and responsive to new innovations! I think this will be key as cities grow more and more.

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Adaptation in response to:

i think this is the next step. I wonder what will influence the move from connection to engagement.

Many blame tech for this situation, but perhaps its the solution. We need to find a way to use tech to make online connection more visceral

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Investigation in response to:

yes

What do you see at the biggest changes that need to be made?

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Momentum in response to:

Very true. Might be an offshoot of traditional planning process that defines community goals. Unfortunately rarely includes implementation.

Many planners are not doers. With the involvement & alignment of citizens & technology, the vision & steps can be communicated to the doers

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Momentum in response to:

Good points. Balance between known capacity and future innovation is tricky. Time and capital imply commitments. Open mind assumed.

Keeping lack of permanence in mind though could make infrastructure easier to dissemble/reconfigure as a starter regardless of future ideas

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Investigation in response to:

Does anyone 'own' the land? It was there before there were people, and it will be here when we die out (probably). Can we lay claim to it?

Isn't this happening regardless of if we can/should? This will create huge tensions between countries once resources get tight.

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Momentum in response to:

yes! Always left out of the budget and timeline.

This made me think of a new innovation! Citizens should have self reporting monitors of when they are working/distracted and work schedules-

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Momentum in response to:

yes! Always left out of the budget and timeline.

-should be based around this to increase efficiency and schedule breaks appropriately. This could mean more work being done in less time!

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Adaptation in response to:

This made me think of a new innovation! Citizens should have self reporting monitors of when they are working/distracted and work schedules-

Maybe even biosensors (just once/twice a year) that monitor eye movement (eg at office jobs) to determine individual's attention span etc

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Momentum in response to:

Yes, but when we think that the land is ours to plunder, we tend to plunder it. If we changed the thinking, we could manage resources better

I in no way disagree. But how can we change the thinking?

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Adaptation in response to:

End the notion of survival of the fittest, and show that freedom of speech can truly make a difference.

Or perhaps reorient survival of the fittest to the collective of our biosphere?

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Investigation in response to:

End the notion of survival of the fittest, and show that freedom of speech can truly make a difference.

What difference do you think freedom of speech can make specifically to this?

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Momentum in response to:

Better off then people who primarily look out for their own self interest.

Haha alright then :) I thought you were in reference to the previous cards about being better off with AI than human contact

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Investigation in response to:

my boss will be pleased to have one!

They would need to be created in a way that served both the worker and the company. Do you think scheduling of breaks is best? Or others?

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Momentum in response to:

Could expand to health care? Recently examined issues associated with self-care for seniors. This type of local social network might work.

As well as child care, pet care, favours. Could coordinate collective errands to make the daily physics of living more efficient!

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Investigation in response to:

To motivate participation, people need hope that what they say will actually be heard and can make a difference.

Freedom of speech can help with the first part in terms of being heard - but we need more in order for it to make a difference no?

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Adaptation in response to:

A shared collective economic and civic life sounds enriching and desirable. How to get there?

If there were less concerns about privacy, I don't see why this couldn't be done now with smart detectors and apps.

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Adaptation in response to:

Yes, then we are just talking about just plain survival. Sustainability, with a respect for the circle of life.

But only the fittest will see that the new strongest of the fittest is for the collective fitness :)

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Adaptation in response to:

The risk for that exists, but it may also turn out, that new tech brings possibilities for new encounters that wouldn't happen otherwise

In no way do I think tech should be abolished because of this, but it should be adapted to increase human connection and not just contact.

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Investigation in response to:

True. I wonder if a version of the old 'users and groups' paradigm is a useful metaphor for building trust circles? Definitely doable.

I'm unfamiliar with this. Can you explain?

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Momentum in response to:

We work towards maximizing the opportunity for fitness of everyone, which does not equate to equal fitness.

Agree!

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Antagonism in response to:

Time Banking: people exchanging various "services" (gardening, shopping etc.) with one another using time as currency.

Incentives can depreciate the inherent nature of community which is something to be cautious of with this.

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Momentum in response to:

I would take a gang of morons over a horde of morons any day. We need education and an end to propaganda regardless.

Haha! Always back to education! IFTF and Foresight Engine - you need to make your next game specifically about education!

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Create dynamic and connected play grounds or outdoor spaces that offer older children challenges and engage their problem solving.

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Momentum in response to:

I think even entire block lengths of streets should be used in cities for something like this - free spaces for kids different ages.

And with tech/simulation apps, challenges and puzzles can be adapted easily online with minimal coordinating effort - yet can hold community

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Connected/smart kitchens detect your consumption habits and coordinate with grocery stores to help regulate stock and decrease waste of food

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

All gym equipment can generate electricity and is harnessed to feed your household energy. Though small contribution, encourages exercise

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Momentum in response to:

I think geo caching is something of this kind as well for all ages and anyone can join: http://www.geocaching.com/

Yes! If we can coordinate easily with apps and the games can be personalized to each child's profile to play to some strengths & weaknesses

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Momentum in response to:

Smart kitchens can also help with user's health goals by gradually adding new foods and recipes, slightly reducing stock of sodas and candy.

Right! The kitchen can also track nutritional intake - in combo with an mobile app for when you're out - & help visualize what you're eating

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Antagonism in response to:

What kind of technology we will need for generate power from gym equipments? Now it is not even near says engineers.

It exists it's just very inefficient at the moment. Stationary bikes can generate - so can mobile bikes, these eve charge phones in Kenya

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Momentum in response to:

this could also feed local food production webs... the same way Wal-Mart collects retail flows to manage global supply chains.

Yes, that what I was trying to get at within the confines of 140 characters :)

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Momentum in response to:

App can work with required ingredient disclosure at restaurants to make eating out more accessible for people with dietary restrictions.

Eventually a utensil could detect what you're eating and relay stats back to your app (HAPIfork is a step towards this)

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Momentum in response to:

I am surprised! But there is still long way to go to have electricity to our household.

Absolutely! But if it was implemented in every gym it would have a small impact & could raise awareness about the inefficiency,but potential

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Connected homeless shelters. Coordinate with nearby stores/restaurants/homes to see what is needed.

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Adaptation in response to:

If that's what they would do - it would be great. Or they would make a better profit by pricing higher.

Then your kitchen could tell you about local grocery stores stock - price, quality, origin etc

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Adaptation in response to:

How long we have to cycle to have enough energy to household. Takes it too much energy from body that it is not green energy?

Haha I didn't mean to POWER a whole household, just to contribute. A little bit of solar/wind/hydro/exercise. Small diverse contributions

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Cities are huge heat generators- use thermoelectric materials that recaptures waste heat everywhere to increase efficiency.

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Momentum in response to:

If they can purify water with bicycles in the 3rd world, we can definitely do this. Harness from public gyms to power homeless shelters?

To power lights and computers in the classrooms/working stations in homeless shelters!

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Momentum in response to:

In Helsinki at least one apartment house have organised shared pantry where you can leave excess food and another resident can pick it free

A "communal" pantry where who purchased what and expiry dates are tracked to share the same product between users based on expiry date

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Momentum in response to:

If the thermomaterial materials would be reasonably priced and easy to find and use, this could work

One day. Solar paint on the outside of buildings and thermoelectric materials lining the inside, with green architecture outside/on the roof

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Momentum in response to:

This is a good idea - the kitchen would tell you also what ingredients and how much you need for a recipe!

And would help notify you which food was going to expire and which recipes you could use this food in! (before expiry haha)

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Investigation in response to:

The day has come! http://www.uwcsea.edu.sg/page.cfm?p=1326

That's awesome - but still too expensive and needing efficiency upgrades to be used everywhere right?

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Momentum in response to:

I thought you meant outdoor spaces? Do apps online create all the same positives?

I do mean outdoor spaces! But use apps to enhance the outdoor space by using virtual overlays with hidden hints/tools. Definitely physical

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Momentum in response to:

More buildings like this will push tech costs down - econs of scale. Good direction for new buildings to work toward.

And if we have piezoelectric roads/sidewalks this can help as well!

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Momentum in response to:

Yes, and the stores could use this for marketing as well - by suggesting recipes of the ingredients on sale with expiry date coming up

Thus helping to eliminate the huge amounts of food waste we have in "developed" countries. This can reduce supply chain pressure...

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Momentum in response to:

Yes, and the stores could use this for marketing as well - by suggesting recipes of the ingredients on sale with expiry date coming up

And food can be rerouted to areas that need it!

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Adaptation in response to:

What does this peizoelectric system mean?

Changing pressure/vibrations into electricity. I made a card earlier about electricity generating sidewalks - I'll make a new one.

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Adaptation in response to:

What does this peizoelectric system mean?

My first card actually! http://game.connected-citizens.org/card_plays/39#scrolltop

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Adaptation in response to:

Sidewalks & roads should convert energy from footsteps & cars into electricity while also monitoring traffic flow.

Piezoelectric and kinetic sidewalks and roads which feed energy back into the grid or the public transit!

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Momentum in response to:

parents dedicated to home schooling could be online-organized to promote this kind of meeting and share learning experiences.

And then children can also program challenges for other children! It can exponentially flourish!

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Momentum in response to:

Govts can encourage this by offering incentives/certification for buildings that reach certain environmental standards.

The buildings could eventually sell their energy back to the grid

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Momentum in response to:

One way to make this more appealing to people is also with making an effort to make ecologically friendly solutions beutiful by design.

And also distinctive in design to increase awareness!

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Momentum in response to:

Build a database of needs, easily accessed by the stores/restaurants, so they can see where to send left overs at the end of the day!

Exactly! Decrease waste and increase assistance

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Antagonism in response to:

Would this be triggering/enabling re: eating disorders?

With the right programs and visualizations, perhaps it can actually help with eating disorders!

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Investigation in response to:

Yes, questionable it may be but I feel there is a point at which people get swamped by keeping track of the surrounding network.

Okay. So should we create community units around this size?

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Investigation in response to:

Yes. And try some online cross-references in order to promote this implementation according to statistics on local pollution.

More pollution = more plants needed to help filter right? What would we do with the plants as they die? Can they still be used as compost?

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Momentum in response to:

Technology brings opportunities.Resources brings capabilities.But education provides the framework for personal development

We need to strengthen each to strength all of the others.

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Momentum in response to:

This could work for private houses as well!

Absolutely!

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Momentum in response to:

We need to think outside the "fashion" box,and build and promote a new generation of apps to promote and a new generation of ideas

I agree. Hopefully on a card somewhere here someone has listed an idea of a new medium - moving beyond the fad of apps to the next tool!

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Momentum in response to:

Only way to overcome concerns about privacy is to promote real human contact.But apps may help people with similar interests to get together

If people voluntarily signed up for this in their neighbourhoods and had face to face meetings when signing up this could happen now!

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Momentum in response to:

This will work, technology for cars making energy while driving is already available, in a way where electric cars can get refilled.

Yes! And can even help fuel public transit and traffic lights etc

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Adaptation in response to:

Yes. Logistics need to be addressed, but the initial online approach to share this is a must!

Always the logistics ;)

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Install artificial trees along highways that convert excessive CO2 emissions back into O2

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Antagonism in response to:

Isn't that what regular trees do - why would they need to be artificial?

Because regular trees cannot necessarily grow right beside highways and can become damaged by the use of road salt, pollution etc.

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Antagonism in response to:

Isn't that what regular trees do - why would they need to be artificial?

Also lack of space for real trees. These CO2 convertors are more like lamposts than tree shapes.

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Momentum in response to:

first: proper playground availability. Second: set up an efficient network of communication. third: a framework for behavior and objectives

Fourth: observe and reassess and adapt to new tech and needs.

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Momentum in response to:

first: proper playground availability. Second: set up an efficient network of communication. third: a framework for behavior and objectives

Also, let's call it the ChallengeGround instead because it is so much more than a playground!

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Adaptation in response to:

Do these artificial trees already exist? If so, are they more efficient than real trees for this purpose? Do they require any power source?

This is still in infancy stages as far as I know, but maybe by 2023!

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Momentum in response to:

Interesting idea - perhaps also one solution could be to have real trees with some kind of breathing system surrounding them to protect?

Yes that's great! A sort of pollution filtration system.

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Adaptation in response to:

Salt tolerant plantings etc. Even in desert, the extra runoff from the roads gives vegetation a boost. Why spend resources on artificial?

It can be useful in major cities where there is not enough room for real trees. I was not envisioning these in rural communities.

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Momentum in response to:

Also hopefully by then the cars will be running on biofuel with no emissions!

One can hope. But maybe these convertors can be used to balance out the biofuel emissions and not disturb air quality at all.

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

What is the next innovation beyond the current trend of mobile apps, location-based services and augmented reality. A new medium?

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Momentum in response to:

it would be interesting to know if there are people working on this sort of innovation right now?

There should be! Otherwise we are racing into technologies that could lead to worse consequences than the ones we have today

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Momentum in response to:

a "more pollution" zone: more incentives to participate in the project. Perhaps more on tax deductible?

Part of the incentives can be a visualization of the actual impact they are making to give positive feedback! More rewarding than incentives

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Investigation in response to:

Haha, I meant people filter out things / ideas / conversation they don't want to see. Different races, homeless people, etc.

But is this not already happening to some degree? You worry that it will exacerbate the problem?

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Ban physical junk mail (like in Germany) and virtual spam to decrease its HUGE carbon footprint

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Investigation in response to:

Learn from nomad(and refugees?!) - live light and stay resilient. Materials anchor us. Let's choose wisely where we cling or let go.

How could we implement this? A community spring cleaning week? Materials get recycled, shared with those in need or become art?

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Antagonism in response to:

all citizens do not agree with this

Visualizations could be created to show the effects of collecting and hoarding materials to help shift away from consumer culture

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Investigation in response to:

Exactly, now at least we must all share the same public realm. This could be the final nail.

The societal implications of this could be devastating. How do you think it can be combated?

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Adaptation in response to:

Even the most perfect rational argument won't convince everyone, or even a majority. Visualizations won't help.

Then we shall teach the children

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Adaptation in response to:

what do you think about rewardings vs financial incentives?

Incentives have a way of derailing people from their original intention and diminishing passion - hence why I am concerned.

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Adaptation in response to:

Incentives have a way of derailing people from their original intention and diminishing passion - hence why I am concerned.

Better "rewards" are ones that should enhance the activity and provide feedback about impact. Incentives are okay in small doses though

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Momentum in response to:

That's a good idea. I was thinking about this in an abstract way. But, a kind of white elephant exchange would yield great benefits.

This is the time to make abstract practical! Let's figure it out right now :) How could we encourage people to partake?

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Momentum in response to:

This is a great idea, positive incentive to de-clutter, clean, and share. It should be a public holiday.

Two days. One for work places, another for residences!

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Critical Imagination in response to:

What are the barriers to creating these new civic innovations?

Many of the technologies people are throwing out as ideas are useless unless people are educated, or are redundant once people are educated!

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Adaptation in response to:

Eliminate the concept of children of specific individuals, and make all children wards of the state.

Controversy haha! At least reinstill the ideas of community raising children instead of just parents (common in some cultures)

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Antagonism in response to:

seams that modern society values economic incentives rather that other kind of incentives. Would be better to try that?

I think too many financial incentives are a reason that we have a lacking in engagement now.

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Adaptation in response to:

Targeted adds, such as the ones served by google will replace junk mail. What we need now is greater competition in this new advert field.

Or we can only have advertising where it belongs - eg new foods in your smart fridge recommendations. New clothes in smart wardrobe.

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Investigation in response to:

Provide community daycare and schooling with curriculum determined by local communities, rather than government.

I like part of this. But how would there be regulation between community curriculum? What if one comm decided not to teach math?

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Positive Imagination in response to:

What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Communities can vote to use begin using only circular economy products

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Investigation in response to:

This is the paradox of choice: with democracy we allow communities to kill math; by forcing math on communities against it we kill democracy

But really it is enhancing opportunity for children in each community. Is it democratic to take opportunities away?

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Momentum in response to:

and what about third world societies?

I believe it is the same. There should be enough incentive to help stabilize quality of life, but not in excess.

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Investigation in response to:

Anything that is favored by a majority is democratic; whether those things are good is another question entirely.

But then this is relative to what you include as the demographic - a community, a province, a country - or all humans.

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Adaptation in response to:

The accessability and usability of technologies should be of high importance when creating new services exploiting that technology.

I don't mean educated about how to use them, but about why they should use them. Why they should be engaged in their communities.

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Investigation in response to:

Would there be a way to connect the two groups of people, to create more in-person community involvement?

I think many people hope so hence the constant tech integration into schools. What do you think?

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Momentum in response to:

True enough: tech is often a stepping stone to the next insight or usage. What dynamic tools would encourage civic engagement, at scale?

Personal education. I think tech should be used to help people see the systems they are part of and the implications for their actions.

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Momentum in response to:

True enough: tech is often a stepping stone to the next insight or usage. What dynamic tools would encourage civic engagement, at scale?

Good examples include tracking devices on food to see where it came from originally, how it got to you, where it will end up. Transparency

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Adaptation in response to:

Do you mean incentives not to engage politically or economically?

No. Financial incentives are good to help people reach a standard of living, but detract from purpose & meaning and can become the sole goal

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Momentum in response to:

Tie results to teacher, parent, and community member rep/karma scores. Create incentives for improvement and positive feedback.

Involving all of these people directly with the educational results of the child is HUGE. There is only so much a teacher can do alone

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Momentum in response to:

Education and critical thinking *might* work.

Haha this is my hope as well!

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Momentum in response to:

Yes it needs to be practical. I wonder if local artists and the emerging repair movement could add value to the turn in and exchange.

Yes this is a great idea! Help infuse the circular economy.

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Adaptation in response to:

third world countries does not have economic incentives on green-enterprises

Well they should start to or they are going to fall behind in adapting to the more efficient technology. Do you agree?

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Momentum in response to:

but at least they may help green-projects adoption

I agree, but they should be used as a starting place and not on a continuously building exponential scale.

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Momentum in response to:

Do the above and link high performing to low performing communities for knowledge and capacity sharing. Parent groups, Curric Sharing, etc

And then have high performing communities share their methods with other communities? But being open to other perspectives to avoid homogeny

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Investigation in response to:

Treat having children as an investment by quantifying people's social impact, rewarding their parents in proportion to their involvement.

Rewarding them with what? We want children recognized as people and not commodities, right?

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Antagonism in response to:

If a new civic technology has no obvious and extreme benefit to its use, it should be immediately discarded.

Whoa discarded might be a bit far. Perhaps archived and made available in other environments so that it can be open to adaptation?

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Micro-climate analysis reveals which plants are suited for which locations. Maybe some are edible and provide income/enhance food security.

Green architecture + urban agriculture + tech sensors!

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but remember. first, they need to eat. Food, means money.

Absolutely. Enough money to meet all physiological and safety/shelter needs, just not in excess is all I'm saying :)

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but those are 2 different field. First is economical. The second is about education.

Unfortunately psychological studies have shown that most humans (even educated ones) fall prey to this tendency with incentives

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Work at the root of the problem too, make less white elephants and more longer lasting, quality items!

Or make long lasting quality parts, that can be reused to adapt and be recreated in new innovations

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yes,of course.But that theoretical talk.How to achieve that?These are 2 different field.Economics and education ;) and the link between them

Educate governments and individuals on ideas like Maslow's hierarchy of needs

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what other services trees installed along freeways provide? Particulate matter filtering from exhaust? or from polluted storm water runoff?

Those sound great!

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We can have green walls even inside and it will also improve our quality of life.

Like plants growing on the walls? Maybe not everyone's aesthetic. But we could have open vivarium!

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agree with that. A more flexible and practical solution should be addressed.

Again I think showing politicians the system wide effects of various policies could help them see the long term benefits.

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This foresight engine needs a like button. #improve. Been great bouncing ideas off you.

You as well! Onward and upward!

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green walls inside would be cool but would they need insects to keep them alive? people mostly don't want insects inside their residences.

But if we could use technology to keep it contained? Maybe we could have an green wall at the centre of apartment buildings.

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interesting idea. Would you care to elaborate?

Use tech to show scenarios and forecast various effects with visualizations to show the effects of adopting/not adopting the policy

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Money/reputation/more votes in direct democracy/more votes in curriculum selection system, anything that either incentivizes/selects leaders

How do you think this would effect the culture of raising children? Would it turn it more into a business?

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Producing a digital underclass and an empowered overclass

Do you not think internet penetration will catch up before this gap is too large? Or will a new wave of tech overtake it like quantum comput

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Possibly -- but businesses are good at being profitable, and in this case the community controls what's considered profitable.

No the adults control what is profitable, not the children, they become commodities. Would this not increase strain to meet arbitrary reqs?

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so, now we are entering the politics field. how to "sell" this new ideas?

Unfortunately this seems to be the way it works.

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A pervasive anarchist common-sense: "Nobody is in charge here. If I want something done, I will have to organize it myself!"

You mean agency?

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Current adults create metrics of social benefit; they reward their parent generation based on how much benefit their children added.

How would who gets to create/adapt the metrics be decided? If there were static metrics there would be no growth

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Yes, having an example of how someone else succeeded doesn't force you to change, but might provide some ideas.

Exactly! Sharing to bring opportunities of new approaches, not mandated ones.

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Agency is actual power/freedom. I mean knowing you have power, and a common sense that it's better to use it than wait for someone else to.

So agency + self-efficacy + initiative

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now transform that into a more practical approach ;) how to achieve that?

There would need to be come way to monitor parental input...

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plants can give energy, capture carbon and build soil

I don't know about this. Can plants raised in a polluted environment still be used to create soil or will the soil then be contaminated

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Agree. But at the end, the logistics, the practical solutions will lead politics on education. How to address the change?

New forms of government?

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What sort of civic innovations would allow metrics of personal social benefit to exist?

I don't know. I worry that incentivizing and rely on civic innovation to spur on social benefit is not addressing the core issue.

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What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

Plan city spaces, infrastructure, schools, work places and homes to be ergonomic to increase efficiency and ease of daily physics of living.

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Communities are self organising entities. Maybe it's a guide to use when developing services or civic programs?

Or maybe it can be used as a guide for online "social" networks somehow?

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I love this! I still don't know what can be recycled and what can't.

So let's design something that can do it for us!

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civic engagement leads to civic solutions - you reap what you sow - we must encourage civic engagement

The examples above are great. How can we create more like them?

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Yes, and it is a step in the right direction. We need one of those for food, shelter, education, transportation, defense, etc.

If these could be automatically updated to reduce effort & organized more effectively for focus they would be more easily utilized as tools

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start with the youth - let them earn access to summer camps by participating in civic projects

What sorts of civic projects?

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Yes, big money still has its influences, but the accessibility to new channels is unprecedented.

For now. Do you think we will lose some of this accessibility with crackdowns?

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Yes, I do think in the future we are going to need to find creative ways to fund/sponsor innovation as govs just do not have the resources.

Do you know about the coming rise of the BCorps?

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What civic innovation can you imagine to improve our communities?

How will 3D printing effect the pervasive materialism of today? Increase it or decrease it?

A game runner marked this card Super Interesting.

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Well, perhaps we spend too much time worrying about ownership. I propose that we study alternate means of living to learn something.

How will 3D printing effect this pervasive materialism of today? Increase it or decrease it?

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Is that companies that are supposed to have profit and social good? Great idea, although in this case we need phone companies specifically.

Yes Benefit Corporation. Hopefully come of the phone companies will convert.

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Is that companies that are supposed to have profit and social good? Great idea, although in this case we need phone companies specifically.

If there was citywide wifi, couldn't we just use that?

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Increase it. As the number of common goods increases, the perceived value of rarer goods goes up in line with their exclusivity

But the more things that can be printed, the less value those things have. So if the tech gets good enough it could decrease this?

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3D printing has potential to democratize manufacturing. It could spur growth in localized creation of needed parts/assets & less outsourcing

Yes, but how do you think this would effect communities socially and culturally in terms of need for materialism/consumption?

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Printable things reduce in value. But un-printable things, like hand-crafted art, would become correspondingly more precious

Also I would hope natural things! Maybe 3D printing will help us protect nature in this way?

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Likely increase in the short-term. But, if we can design a local economy along cradle to cradle principles, it may not matter as much?

Especially if 3D printing products can be broken down and reused!

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Especially if 3D printing products can be broken down and reused!

It would be cool if they were encrypted into their built structure but could be broke down in base parts easily with code when obsolete

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While many people have browsers on their phone, and that would be a good start, I think pushing out info via text gets an even wider range

But things like imessage use the internet to send text messages and don't need the phone companies.

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I think that only works within the apple platform. I don't know enough about mobile tech. to know if that would work across platforms

Right now iMessage does only work across apple, but that doesn't mean it can't be easily enabled/created on other phones.

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