Inspiration


A talk about the intersection of design, biology, and technology

Dvir Bach
Dvir Bach
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe

“fungi knit together the lives of plants, animals and the Earth itself. It’s an information superhighway that speeds up interactions between a large, diverse population of individuals. It allows individuals who may be widely separated to communicate and help each other out.”


The Clock of the Long Now celebrates the power of long-term thinking and mankind’s insatiable thirst to solve life’s biggest problems.


How do we make sense of today’s political divisions? Harari places our current turmoil in a broader context, against the ongoing disruption of our technology, climate, media, etc.


The Growing Case for Geoengineering:

As climate change accelerates, a handful of scientists are eager to move ahead with experiments testing ways to counteract warming artificially. Their reasoning: we just might get desperate enough to use this technology one day.


Dune by Frank Herbert

The story explores the multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the forces of the empire confront each other in a struggle for the control of Arrakis and its “spice”.


Mad Max

A story which takes place in a not-too-distant dystopian future, when man’s most precious resource — oil — has been depleted and the world plunged into war, famine and financial chaos.

Project AirAware

Project AirAware aims to harness the power of a global network in order to monitor air pollution and raise awareness of our surroundings.

Dvir Bach

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Dvir Bach

Project AirAware

Project AirAware aims to harness the power of a global network in order to monitor air pollution and raise awareness of our surroundings.

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