Words matter. These are the best Jens Martin Skibsted Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context.
Industrial design is a superficial practice. You use your approach regardless of the project because there is no time for a deep understanding of a single product.
Major global institutions need to harvest clean tech knowledge wherever it can be found and integrate it into their major export systems.
The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.
Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror – maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal strife and deaths inflected on the continent, death during transport, death during ownership, collapse of African economies, and such.
Design negotiates between technology, policy, systems, and users.
I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.
Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model.
Urban mobility is a massive global challenge. The world needs people to use multiple forms of transport – a mix of biking, walking, and other low-energy forms of transportation.
When democracies don’t deliver growth, alternatives seem more attractive.
If intelligent robots are our competitors and, to some extent, cerebrally alike – enough for us to discuss their ethical standing – why would they be above the law? Should they not contribute to our societies, too? And why would they be exempt from taxes?
The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change.
How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.
The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a given amount of energy, which in turn means lower costs for the provider and cheaper prices for the customers.
Who needs Russian gas if we could get all the heat we need from our own surplus? Who needs Middle Eastern oil, when we can integrate limitless renewable sources in our smart grids?
Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities.
Just imagine how many more cyclists could help save our cities and prevent further global warming by adopting electric bikes, if they received strategic and financial support similar to electric car drivers.
From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.
Obviously, not all migration relates to global warming, but the correlation is higher than most would think.
A true democracy starts by separating state and bad science.
I don’t think that artificial intelligence means doomsday, and I think many new jobs will be created, too. However, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that these new types of jobs will favor low-income demographics. We need to address the needs of those who will be left out of the new job market.
Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.
Cities are important because that’s where the majority of the world’s population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.
Humankind has mainly evolved in Africa, and we only left Africa very, very late in our evolutionary path. This means that there is very little genetic diversity among those who left Africa and very much genetic diversity among those who stayed.
It is widely accepted and understood that consumer decisions are as much influenced by emotional attachments to a product or service as by factors like price and performance. So why is it that when it comes to most aspects of human transportation, the world still seems to believe people are rational machines?
A company’s ethical behavior is ultimately triggered by some sense of caring. And care is a sense of closeness to someone or something. A company must bring value to whom or what it is close to.
People are not going to change because an activist goes around shouting.
Anyone can dream up great ideas, but an idea is nothing until it’s realized, be it as a website, a physical product, an app, or a user interface.
Time hygiene is about finding more time for ourselves: to think, to do what we like.
Our houses, shops, and factories waste gigantic amounts of energy, often in the form of excess heat. How do we slash this waste? The answer is fairly simple: with a smart thermal water grid.
