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Between Us and The Universe
Space
• 5,000 satellites launched
• Space station construction under way
• Plans for manned mission to Mars
Human Artefacts
• Human artefacts stand between the human population
and the natural environment
Education
• We share information, ideas, values and beliefs that take on a life of their own
• Let’s call this ‘education’
Technology
• We use material things to lever our strengths and make a bigger impact on our environments
• Let’s call this ‘technology’
Arts
• We make things and events to creatively express ideas and feelings that words will not share
• We call these the ‘arts’
Organization
• We organize people into a system of relationships and a chain of communication and command to co-ordinate use of education and technology
• We can call this ‘business organization’
Progress
• One of the marks of the human species is the desire and ability to make improvements
• Sometimes we call this ‘restlessness’
Artificial World
• The world in which we live is increasingly an artificial one
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