I just finished reading Bruce Mau’s Massive Change – this sentence is just stuck in my head. “Now that we can do anything, what will we do?”
It very nicely represents the dilemma of current times, where we have made available—many tools, amazing sets of ideas, diverse skill sets; but what are we gonna do with all of this?
– cheap technologies, fast processing computers (which would consume rooms and rooms of space in other times are now on our tables, for each one of us), search engines that can find anything (including abandoned log cabins on Forbes Avenue in the middle of Pittsburgh city) social networking which enables connections over time, geographies and cultures, renewable energy (proliferating through more and more communities by the day) fast updating information at our finger tips; here are all the tools of change—now, what are we gonna do.
*I remember Geetha Narayanan using the Mau question in her conversations with me and others – but till now I never truly got it.
