He is robust in recognising that any effective response to climate change must include hi-tech solutions such as nuclear power, although his proposal for an 'Energy Internet'oneone big seamless platform for using, storing, generating and even buying and selling clean electrons') sounds impractical.
And yet in Silicon Valley, it seems the only solutions are hi-tech solutions.
The intention of Sidewalk Labs is to reshape cities through the conjunction of clever planning and hi-tech solutions.
Instead, each time, the potential human development benefits of the hi-tech solutions get compared to the purely "ideological" concerns of environmentalists, as happened in recent debates about crops modified to carry the nutritional equivalent of fish oil.
"One of the biggest problems is that medical school training embeds a culture focused on hi-tech solutions and with an emphasis on drilling down to fine details, with care pathways that reflect that," she said.
For Oleynik, the vision is to produce a hi-tech solution to an everyday domestic issue.
Singapore, which integrates technology and urban planning to a unique degree, pioneered the hi-tech solution to the complications of urban life.
Most effective of all, however, has been the most hi-tech solution – a passive infrared device connected to a garden hose which senses motion, triggering a quick and noisy arc of water towards the intruder.
This week Oxford University anthropologist Catherine Dolan proposes a hi-tech solution to tackle debt and financial exclusion.
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The result was less than transformative: In staggering numbers, officers conveniently failed to turn their cameras on, rendering the hi-tech solution useless.
