by vbost | Oct 9, 2013 | Awareness, Culture, Ecology, Media, Sustainability, SXSW Eco 2013 Coverage
We did another round of live blogging today, this time on keynote speaker Adam Werbach. Following are the results (in reverse order): Surprise Live Blog: “Peak Stuff, Baby Pigeons and the Heartbeat of Cats” presented by Adam Werbach 14:53 aaand the lights are on. – Stupidgregg 14:53 “THE HOPE of the human race lies in its generosity.” 14:52 AW has been using computer printers, and their immediate obsolesence as an example of a horrible product that shouldn’t besold. – Stupidgregg 14:52 14:51 Let’s see if Yerdle can help out with this. 14:51 He has found that a lot of things you want to buy are probably already available and unused by a friend. 14:51 People don’t realize how much stuff they have that they don’t want, and how much stuff they want, that their friends have but don’t want. – Stupidgregg 14:50 Good point, this is hitting home. I need to look at all the stuff that I have that don’t use. 14:49 We had some slight technical difficulty there. 14:49 * Technical difficulties * 14:49 Sharing is important because many things that we use are designed for obselesence, and we have a lot of crap on our shelves. The lead designer from Braun was an icon of Jony Ive (Apple Inc.). His design principle was “Less is Better.” – Stupidgregg 14:48 14:42 Updated : 14:49 A concept from Mumbai inspiring Yerdle, a simple sharing platform. Which you can download from iTunes, here. 14:42 They want Yerdle to be used as a means for people to share all that junk that is sadly sitting in storage…alone, unused, unandled. 14:41 It’s available...
