#136 - Daniel Pinchbeck (Part 3)

[0] God, bravo.

[1] That was so well structured.

[2] Yeah, who the fuck knows?

[3] And we're going to look back for sure one day on this, the same way we look back at those little Hobbit people.

[4] They found that Florence Island.

[5] And that's one of the weirdest things about it is we've got to know that this is just a step along the way for the species.

[6] Every species is moved in the same sort of direction from single -celled organism to us.

[7] It's not stopping here.

[8] This is just another step along the way.

[9] But to what?

[10] Do you wonder how much effect technology is going to have on this or how much impact, whether it's a symbiotic thing, whether it's a biological thing as well as a cosmological thing and a technological thing, almost converging at the same time?

[11] Yeah, absolutely.

[12] I mean, I think that, you know, ultimately the next jump for our technology would be to somehow become symbiotic with the planetary environment.

[13] You know, we would create no waste systems.

[14] Is that possible?

[15] Sure.

[16] There's an interesting book, an interesting book called Cradle to Cradle by this environmental designer William McDonohue and a chemist.

[17] And they believe that, and they started the process of analyzing all these industrial systems and the idea is that you could redesign them