"Transitions" are radical societal changes in thinking, acting, and organizing that take several decades.
As Cindy Sovine, a political consultant for the Colorado State Association of Health Underwriters, notes, "We need a societal change in thinking.
e) Solving major societal problems by thinking outside of the box.
It allowed me to consider which are most relevant from a societal perspective, without thinking too much about why I felt the way I did.
The world of the European colonialism and imperialism was supposed to function effectively on a unilinear way of thinking, unilinear societal organizing and unilinear governing systems.
On the one hand, the sense of déjà-vu in thinking about societal responses to varied technologies leads to posit that at least some of what seems so familiar can be formalized into generalized principles.
This way of thinking about commercial, societal and technological problems interests the Transport Systems Catapult, created last year by the Technology Strategy Board TSBB).
He also stressed that part of his staff is dedicated to thinking about the societal impact of AI, with a special focus on retraining the existing workforce to create "not just a wealthier but also fairer society".
But getting there from here requires a big shift in understanding of our societal role -a shift from thinking the world is bigger than we are (so we can just keep extracting without consequence), to waking up to the reality that instead, we may be bigger than the world (and thus need very different strategies).
We explore such barriers to using a research ethics consultation service and even thinking about ethical, societal, and policy implications in general elsewhere.
