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Video: Can eCommerce Save the Environment? - David EaglemanThis forum post is dated 04/17/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. - Ecommerce
| Video: Can eCommerce Save the Environment? - David Eagleman Complete video at: fora.tv Did you know the UPS trucks that deliver your online purchases save millions of gallons of gas every year by never making left turns? Neuroscientist David Eagleman cites this as one example of how online shopping and email can benefit the environment by reducing pollution and conserving energy use. -- Neuroscientist and fiction writer David Eagleman presents "Six Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization." Civilizations always think they're immortal, Eagleman says, but they nearly always perish, leaving "nothing but ruins and scattered genetics." It takes luck and new technology to survive. We may be particularly lucky to have Internet technology to help manage the six requirements of a durable civilization. But if the Net is so crucial, what happens if the Net goes down? It may have to go down a few times before we learn how to defend it properly, before we catch on that civilization depends on it for survival. - The Long Now Foundation David Eagleman is a neuroscientist and a fiction writer. During the day, he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law at Baylor College of Medicine. He is best known for his work on time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw. |
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