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No More Clear Skies? No More Privacy?

3/15/2005

After all, our technology and our understanding of the world get better and better. Throw in systems theory and a lot of understanding about the natural world and human needs, and you get –eventually–the modern sustainability movement and things like green design. Green design is now, according to my many architect friends, no longer anything so special, it’s just good design. Why, after all, would you design a building to use several times more energy than it needed to? Or one that people are uncomfortable in because the windows don’t open, d’oh?

That’s the positive view. That’s a sign that in some alternative history, it might have been possible that contrails were never imposed on all of us. And there will be future scenarios of that sort which I hope we can recognize as such when they arise. Even if the driving force has to be the need to understand who pays, and in what ways, for someone else’s wealth, knowing more about unintended consequences and protecting the world from them is a good thing.

The good news is that my daughter graduates this May with honors in English. It’s probably inevitable that her future is replete with skies full of contrails. I sure hope that she has a future with some kind of security about personal information in it. I’m not optimistic, though.


About the author: Terry Calhoun is Director of Communications and Publications for the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). You can contact him through CT's IT Trends forum by clicking here. View more articles by Terry Calhoun.

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