Humans are social animals, we are wired to interact with one another and have evolved so that this intense need for social interactions is the main factor in our success as a species.
David Byrne, of Talking Heads fame and certifiable polymath, is also a thinker and has taken on asking questions about where the tech-ification of the world is taking us. He claims that technology, as it is understood today, is removing humans from interactions, in the ever-growing quest for "efficiency", slowly but surely physically and sociall separating us from one another.
Science proves that, despite our deepest instincts to do the contrary, we thrive when we interact with one another, especially if we connect with random strangers. Byrne takes it one step further here. He claims that because engineers are predominantly men, often with asocial tendencies, they are building a world in their image. Would we live in a different world if the engineers building our future were more diverse and more socially attuned? Would we even look to remove serendipitous interactions and "inefficiencies"?
I personally think that the future is collaborative. We need anthropologists, sociologists, engineers, scientists, marketers, designers, manufacturers, critics, artists, etc. to collaborate more on the creation of new products and services in order to eliminate silos that render us oblivious to other perspectives.
How do we make that happen?
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