Comments on: Obtaining Unobtainium http://memo.ryecroft.net/2010/02/obtaining-unobtainium/ Memo.ryecroft is a collection of notes on various bits of my life and other interestingness that I stumble across. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:26:01 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: ryecroft http://memo.ryecroft.net/2010/02/obtaining-unobtainium/comment-page-1/#comment-610 ryecroft Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:22:16 +0000 http://memo.ryecroft.net/?p=2005#comment-610 I've always equated our general state of affairs with that hospital/health care analogy that I can't quite remember...treating the effects, but not the cause. Something like that. And I feel comfortable looking at it that way because I'm also guilty of that mindset. It's a hard thing to change...especially considering the "land of plenty" viewpoint that we as an American society have grown up with for the last 225+ years. I’ve always equated our general state of affairs with that hospital/health care analogy that I can’t quite remember…treating the effects, but not the cause. Something like that.

And I feel comfortable looking at it that way because I’m also guilty of that mindset. It’s a hard thing to change…especially considering the “land of plenty” viewpoint that we as an American society have grown up with for the last 225+ years.

]]> By: Elaine http://memo.ryecroft.net/2010/02/obtaining-unobtainium/comment-page-1/#comment-609 Elaine Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:05:09 +0000 http://memo.ryecroft.net/?p=2005#comment-609 i came across the bloom box the other day - and though i couldn't quite put my finger on it, it was as exciting as it was unsettling. you nailed it. also...http://trendwatching.com/briefing/ - read down to all the examples inventions. i felt similarly about that...the simplicity of the products to help bring people in developing nations up to basic living standards is really exciting...its just one of those things where you have an billions of people that now have access and will want all that they didn't have. how do you innovate, provide and improve standards of living, while teaching responsible living practices? Especially when we're not living responsibly as a society ourselves?... i came across the bloom box the other day – and though i couldn’t quite put my finger on it, it was as exciting as it was unsettling. you nailed it.

also…http://trendwatching.com/briefing/ – read down to all the examples inventions. i felt similarly about that…the simplicity of the products to help bring people in developing nations up to basic living standards is really exciting…its just one of those things where you have an billions of people that now have access and will want all that they didn’t have.

how do you innovate, provide and improve standards of living, while teaching responsible living practices? Especially when we’re not living responsibly as a society ourselves?…

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