Edward Tenner: The paradox of efficiency
Edward Tenner: Kako da djelotvornost radi za nas
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more light per watt,
više svjetla po wattu,
are giving us more for less.
nam daju više za manje.
a friction-free utopia
understand the present.
razumjeti sadašnjost.
and the danger of efficiency
from the ancient Inca.
of balanced nutrition.
balansirane ishrane.
of healthy Prussians.
healthy Prussian soldiers
pharmacist named Parmentier.
po imenu Parmentier.
him a healthier person.
to spread the potato to France.
proširi Francuskom.
advised him to hold a banquet,
ga je savjetovao da održi gozbu
francuskog kralja i kraljicu
flower in his lapel,
a potato flower in her hair.
public relations idea.
odlična promotivna ideja.
for Europe's good.
were genetically identical.
called the Lumper.
imenom Lumper.
and callousness played a role,
su imali svoju ulogu,
were forced to emigrate.
to the problem of doctors' handwriting,
ružnih liječničkih rukopisa,
for treatments.
liječenje pacijenata.
that they have less,
da imaju manje
to see patients individually.
pažnje pacijentima.
can actually make us less efficient.
nas učiniti manje djelotvornima.
with false positives.
lažnim pozitivnim rezultatima.
of devices registering alarms.
koji bilježe alarme.
stress and, once more,
stres i, još jednom,
of real patients.
stvarnih pacijenata.
in pattern recognition.
u prepoznavanju uzoraka.
identifikacije.
također problem.
i to vrlo brzo.
get bad reviews, like "Moby Dick,"
kao "Moby Dick", dobiju lošu ocjenu,
by multiple publishers,
to try to avoid all waste.
pokušavati izbjeći otpad.
when the opposition copies it.
kad je kopira opozicija.
every four seconds.
svake četiri sekunde.
was that because of the recoil mechanism,
je povratni mehanizam,
potpuno istu poziciju
was drastically increased.
učestalost ispaljivanja.
the next time they fought.
than anybody had expected.
je itko očekivao.
to shorten the war, prolonged it.
da skrati rat, zapravo ga je produljila.
may be missed opportunities.
propuštene prilike.
connecting buyers and sellers
kupce i prodavače
in the last few weeks.
zadnjih nekoliko tjedana.
hundreds of millions of dollars
stotine milijuna dolara
with initial public offerings.
izlaskom na burzu.
because hardware is hard.
im oprema predstavlja problem.
a physical or chemical invention
proizvesti u velikim količinama
in portable devices and electric cars
uređajima i električnim vozilima
jednim punjenjem?
introduced in 1959.
Xerox 914.
Haloid in Rochester, NY
Haloid iz Rochestera u državi New York
would never have tolerated.
poduzeća ne bi nikad podnijela.
was finally released,
that was called a scorch eliminator
koji su nazvali eliminator gorenja,
a small fire extinguisher built in.
uređaj za gašenje požara.
inspired inefficiency.
nadahnuta nedjelotvornost.
but they're not enough.
ali nisu dovoljni.
and human skills.
i ljudske vještine.
of inspired inefficiency.
nadahnute nedjelotvornosti.
say yes to serendipity.
prihvatite slučajna otkrića.
the east bank of the Mississippi,
obalu Mississippija,
crossing the great river,
koji je prelazio preko rijeke,
said I could not turn back.
rekao da se ne mogu vratiti.
that's all it was at the time --
tada je to stajalo toliko --
of the world's richest mussel beds.
svjetskih nalazišta dagnji.
a third of the world's buttons
trećina sve svjetske dugmadi
of the pearl button industry
industrije biserne dugmadi
unusual in the world.
president stayed in 1986,
kineski predsjednik 1986.
for Chinese tourists.
to be able to control lights,
getting up, walking around
hodanje naokolo
you can do for your heart.
učiniti za svoje srce.
of the Metropolitan Opera
and some white ink fell on the drawing.
nešto bijele tinte palo na crtež.
have thrown it away,
to produce a starburst chandelier
stvori zvjezdani luster
of its kind of the 20th century.
svoje vrste u 20-om stoljeću.
to be less fluent.
desirable difficulty.
to grasp what a lecturer is saying,
bilježenje onog što predavač govori,
that when we have to abbreviate,
kada moramo skraćivati,
what a speaker is saying,
with a pen or a pencil on paper,
pomoću različitosti.
i na organizacije.
in an organization succeed in the past.
ljude u organizacijama učinilo uspješnima.
in screening employees.
is constantly changing,
neprestano mijenja,
has no way to tell,
nema načina reći,
whatever the algorithm tells us
što nam govori algoritam
and various outlooks.
through redundancy and human skills.
pomoću zalihosti i ljudskih vještina.
737 Max zrakoplova?
prevent future tragedies.
u budućnosti.
nezavisni sustavi.
can override it.
nadomjestiti.
to come to the rescue
koji će doći i spasiti stvar,
of the film industry,
filmske industrije
for efficiency than Thomas Edison.
djelotvornost kao Thomas Edison.
ga je upropastilo.
a so-called efficiency engineer,
inženjera djelotvornosti
that he'd shot,
the new rules of feature films
igranih filmova
was becoming the price of success.
cijena uspjeha.
like Erich Von Stroheim,
kao Erich Von Stroheim,
within their budgets.
koji su zarađivali.
a former secretary with intuitive genius,
i intuitivni genijalac,
racionalnu neumjerenost.
of the Hollywood producer.
potpuno djelotvorni,
behind his house.
can be physical, like Darwin's,
poput Darwinovog,
samu sebe.
can strengthen it.
je može ojačati.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Edward Tenner - Historian of technology and cultureEdward Tenner is an independent writer, speaker, and editor analyzing the cultural aspects of technological change.
Why you should listen
Edward Tenner is an independent writer and speaker on the history of technology and the unintended consequences of innovation. He writes for The Atlantic on history and current events, and was a founding advisor of Smithsonian's Lemelson Center, where he remains a senior research associate. He was executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press, he has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton and has held visiting research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. He is now a visiting scholar in the Rutgers School of Communication and Information and an affiliate of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School.
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