MIT Media Lab | Media Lab Perspectives: You are RIGHT! Right? with Juan Enriquez @MITMediaLab | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 41 minutes ago.
Professor Pattie Maes welcomes Juan Enriquez, a leading authority on the economic impact of life sciences and brain research on business and society, to discuss his new book, Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics.
In an era of great polarization and fury one needs to consider three certainties: 1) What we consider ethical changes over time. 2) Technology profoundly alters what we consider right/wrong. 3) Tech is moving at exponential rates. As you invent/ create new things you alter ethics. And, because technology often allows us to act more ethically over time, we often look back in horror at what was SOP. So, as we judge each other, we need to bring back two words rarely used in today's discourse: humility and forgiveness.
More information: https://www.media.mit.edu/events/faculty-perspectives-j/
Professor Pattie Maes welcomes Juan Enriquez, a leading authority on the economic impact of life sciences and brain research on business and society, to discuss his new book, Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics.
In an era of great polarization and fury one needs to consider three certainties: 1) What we consider ethical changes over time. 2) Technology profoundly alters what we consider right/wrong. 3) Tech is moving at exponential rates. As you invent/ create new things you alter ethics. And, because technology often allows us to act more ethically over time, we often look back in horror at what was SOP. So, as we judge each other, we need to bring back two words rarely used in today's discourse: humility and forgiveness.
More information: https://www.media.mit.edu/events/faculty-perspectives-j/
![[Bike] Swarm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wUl-CHJ6DK0/hqdefault.jpg "[Bike] Swarm
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, and the hazards of traffic less dangerous.
Imagine that as solitary bikes come together, their lights begin to pulsate at the same cadence. The bikers may not know each other, or may only be passing each other briefly, but for the moments they are together, their lights synchronize. The effect is a visually united presence, as groups of bikes illuminate themselves with a gently pulsing, collective light source.
We built this light system. We designed a synchronization protocol and algorithm, as well as physical prototypes that we fabricated and tested on our local city streets.
Our system is designed for deployment in a city, yet draws inspiration from nature.
More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/bike-swarm/overview/
Note: Video has no spoken audio. Music plays throughout.")
