"What they don't realize is the long-term implications of the things that they are doing".
Now Burks would like to see "a return to the hand" – or handmade products – in the world of high-end design, a hybrid of "high" and "low" design that more deeply considers the social and cultural implications of making things.
Yet while the tech industry is eagerly embracing the possibilities of a wired physical world, some have sounded a cautionary note about the implications of the things around us being connected to computer networks.
In the case of whether to intervene in Syria, for instance, Pincus said reporters shouldn't simply allow government officials or politicians to talk of arming rebels or setting up a no-fly-zone "without either forcing those people -- or doing it themselves -- [to explain] what implications of those things are, as if they're abstractions, as if they're just going to happen".
If we abstain from false speech, slanderous speech, harsh speech and idle chatter, if we could think about the implications of the things that come trippingly out of our mouths or that come dashingly off our fingertips in emails and blogs (or even in comments responding to blogs) before we release them into the universe, just imagine how lovely communication would be.
"The implications of this thing spreading is tremendous.
They then make choices about things in one particular mental compartment without taking account of the implications for things in other compartments.There is also a huge amount of evidence that people are persistently, and irrationally, over-confident.
Utilizing these properties could massively increase the power of certain types of computation, with implications for things like code breaking and security, materials science and facial recognition.
