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Imagining a SolarPunk Future | Keisha Howard | TEDxOgden


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so I am most inspired by speculative
fiction I can know it’s not real
speculative fiction focuses on
narratives that are about thinking about
my future for reimagines histories or so
so simple examples would include
steampunk or assignment hunt or
dieselpunk so of all those my favorite
is because I love thinking about what
the future could be like we have all
this technology so what is that
technology going to look like in the
next 20 years yourself so also Simon
focuses on our national intelligence
cybernetics virtual reality and come on
global super interested all Muslims and
I think one of the reasons why I I grab
some lunch torch cyberpunk because I
always wanted in myself as this bad I
wanted to be the badass because I was
it’s no surprise but chilly feet stories
or play video games where commit this
character fighting to save the world of
the gift corporate corruption and
justices with my cybernetic robotic arms
you know me
so I basically consume everything that I
could find every book every video game
there people be again cyberpunk is like
matrix from Blade Runner or even black
mirror so I started thinking about a
little bit more what should get past all
those pretty neon lights cyberpunk is
really about a world where people are
suffering its dystopic is apocalyptic
there it is there are people that are
living in way that we don’t want to live
it you know like I’m almost like the
city is dirty it grows and when people
were are struggling and I started
thinking about that it’s like I know if
I really want the future to look like a
cyberpunk dystopia as much cyber this
isn’t the future that I want to look
forward to and every day I’m watching
the new Tuesday I’m seeing what’s going
on
let’s see staggering inequalities
pollution goal or turning many
corporations have a negative impact on
all of our lives I mean this actually
fiction still are we like using hurtling
toward the assignment feature becoming
reality and you know we consume all this
when I’m cooking pork I’m very inspired
by speculative fiction I’m inspired by
what people can come up with their
imaginations because your imagination
like it is exist right now but people
come up with ideas that don’t exist that
info we don’t being a part of reality
late so you know there’s fictions at the
foundation for some of the greatest
inventions that we have today and you
know now that I’m thinking a little bit
more deeply about what’s over from
Queens I guess I was looking for
something different committee or
something different so I look on the
difference and I love random creative
architecture and a half a time step on
oh boy these architecture which is he’s
famous for building vertical forests so
there is buildings in dense cities that
are packed with
planets in these buildings basically
help to come back all of the air quality
issues that impact up at huge cities so
Alana temple is one of the most polluted
cities and this is where one of his
first projects was fealty now he’s
working on a border city in China and
there’s a Wow in reality if you know
this is like I’d love to see a city
Patrick query I mean to think that the
best technology to combat pollution and
identity is trees looking at each of
these vertical forested burger farming I
came across this blog solar cooked in
I’m super excited when your friends over
anything important for that so I was
like this is going to make me even more
but I was worried and I like wanted to
see that you don’t mean about everything
that I couldn’t about so what is
Sullivan Sullivan was just like
psychopath if something were the
advances in technology in science
don’t lead to a dystopian it leads to a
way that you can live in harmony with
the earth a way that you can have a
civilization that’s more egalitarian and
we have some edge technology that exists
today that are nuggets to imagine a
better future and I think that that is
just freaking awesome
way that we should probably have more
sullen punk the cyberpunk in our Abbey
kitchen is very thick it does this new
ideas so I was talking to you my little
right so Punk where’s the pumpkin
southern well we would have to make
radical changes in our behavior right
there I promise both and I thought this
Pope was just profound
someone said that it’s easier to imagine
that in the world into the dimension
that end of capitalism where we’re so
used to wait after living how long
consume things that you seek revenge to
this lake we just need to start over
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so easier for me to like this just a
couple of steps away from reality so
southern front is Punk because but has
prevailed against the status quo today
we have to prevail against like all the
things that we’re so accustomed to the
best time right now we are going the
cusp of so many technological advantages
we have invested in enough time with
resources we can create systems that can
power the whole us with solar energy
it’s not like the whole world we can you
know put that time in Africa to global
them into vertical farming like that
idea vertical farm skirts is so
interesting and I know this sounds super
utopian right so when you start talking
about the tokens it seems so unrealistic
to attain but that’s why we need to to
start talking about concepts like
because it sounds fun right so if we can
start creating fiction inherit it and
include some of the ideas that some punk
in in Bella’s there maybe we can start
coming up with some different solutions
so that we’re not going to hurtle toward
this apocalyptic a so that’s why your
neck I want you guys to all go home look
up like solar pump ease become solar
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