Saffo, Paul
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see private file for him
 
 
 
Nov 25, 2008 10:09 PM  Paul@saffo.com  (jan 2010)
 
PAUL SAFFO born  1954 in LA.
gave a talk on smart sensors at Conv08 that I missed.
 
Jan 18, 2010 7:46 PM
see Janets notes...
 
Engineers, Druids, and Foresight Deficit.
Raging moderates needed.
He uses DRUID to describe Nature lovers like me ... want to revert to past.
Engrs are the optimists that think that every probelm has a tech soln.
 
Carbon credits are as useful as papal indulgences in staying out of hell.
 
David Brauer - Rachel Carson ... chief Druids.  Eo Wilson  etc.  biologists.
also geologists are druids ...  view current civilization as just another geolog layer.
 
Newt Gingrich killed off the OTA  Office of Tech Assessment.
Al Toffler  is pron. like COUGH lure
 
 
 
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