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“Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.”

Quote by Jonathon Keats

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Jonathon Keats is an active artist and writer in the contemporary art and science fields. Known for his interdisciplinary works, he combines scientific concepts with artistic practices to explore the relationship between humans, nature, technology, and the universe. more

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“Take the self-driving car and the smartphone and put those together and think about how to manage a smart grid because suddenly you have all of this data coming from those two mechanisms that allow for a much higher level of allocating energy much more efficiently.”

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“[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.”

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“I think what we need to do is we need to seek some other way in which to do what is potentially good work by Google. Google has made the world a better place in some ways.”

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“I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that - not arbitrarily at all but to completely change how that plays out based upon the needs of profitability. So it's totally unreliable and it has many layers nested underneath that of many ulterior motives nested underneath it.”

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“What we need to do is we need to say, how can - how can we operate independently in terms of putting together these various technologies in order to be able to make the world a better place?”

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“I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that I find horrific.”

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“I do not think that technology is our salvation.”

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“I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.”

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“I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.”

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“I think that as a society as well, we need to be smart about what technologies we take up and how construe progress.”

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