Cognitive Thrift 24 – Utilitarian
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/06/08
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Do you see things becoming more utilitarian?
Rick Rosner: Yea – as people live longer, people’s tolerance for risk goes down. People drive crappier than ever with our devices and everything, but our automobile fatalities are lower than they’ve been 50/60 years because we have cars with ten air bags and other safety devices, and so, yea, tolerance for risk will decrease in the future.
That includes becoming the victim of violent action. People will try to engineer some of our uncontrolled violent tendencies out of our behaviour.
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