(Recorded August 5, 2024)

As a problem-solving species, technology is an embedded part of the human experience – we assess, innovate, invent and adapt. But as we move out of the anomalous era we have just lived through and into less stable economic, social, geopolitical and ecological circumstances, humanity will require different kinds of innovation for a livable future.

In this Frankly, Nate offers preliminary guidelines for what might be termed ‘Goldilocks Technology’ – not too hot (dopaminergic gadgets) and not too cold (stone age tech) inventions for the future. Can governance upstream of designers and engineers use prices and policy to incentivize more appropriate and reliable technology? Can values and behavioral choices change demand, shifting the products available toward more sustainable options? What would the materials, supply chains, and disposal of technology that is ‘just right’ look like - and how would it change our wider boundary relationship with the biosphere?

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00:00 - Introduction
04:06 - Today’s Economic Equation
08:00 - Minimize Energy Inputs
08:51 - Shrink Key Supply Chains
09:50 - Move to Simple Inputs
10:51 - % Circularity
11:47 - % Regenerative
12:28 - Ecological Impacts
13:15 - Anticipate Problem Shifting
14:07 - Affordable & Scalable
14:41 - Relevant to The Great Simplification
16:17 - Wide Boundary Profitability
17:20 - Closing Questions

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