Kathryn Bouskill: The unforeseen consequences of a fast-paced world
凱瑟琳·布斯基爾: 步調快的世界,預料外的後果
Kathryn Bouskill's work explores how our health is shaped as much by our biology as it is by our behaviors and cultural contexts. Full bio
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with things that help us do everything
and do all of it all at the same time?
還要一心多用
even more into every waking hour?
our minimum speed is Mach 3.
losing our competitive edge.
is starting to question
at the Rand Corporation,
study ancient cultures,
and how we're adapting
happening in the world.
Seifu Chonde, to study speed.
他是一位工程師,我們研究速度
are adapting to this age of acceleration
keeps accelerating?
more secure and productive?
會更安全、更有生產力嗎?
acceleration as inevitable,
人們無可避免步調變快
of becoming obsolete.
burn out than rust out.
erode their cultural traditions
at the speed game
the gap between the haves,
這個推測很合理
that the future will be faster,
就成形的大腦卻沒作好準備
aren't really built for it,
and race cars and supersonic planes,
賽車和超音速飛機
with incredible focus,
with great speed
有了很大的差距
between our biology and our lifestyles,
built for and what we're making them do.
"Stone Agers in the fast lane."
「叫史前人類開車上快車道」
it can be measured objectively. Right?
我們能客觀量測速度,對吧?
new technologies is increasing.
from the introduction of the telephone
had phones at home.
for most of us to have smartphones.
大家便人手一機
different people within the same culture.
as pleasantly brisk and convenient
for a to-go cup at a Japanese tea ceremony
大家不會還要求外帶
to your next tourist stop.
is that speed begets speed.
the more responses I get,
easier and more rational.
seem to be happening.
were supposed to free us from drudgery,
in record numbers,
to answer that text right away?
feel a little more fun
不是應該充滿樂趣
in the long run.
我們有時無所適從
has major failures,
when we made decisions too quickly
or critical thinking required
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky,
和 Amos Tversky 這兩位心理學家
to do something with their insights.
one spurt of acceleration after another.
if we just speed up enough,
to artificial intelligence
and smarter decisions
universe of data.
are no substitute
to let their impulses subside,
需要一些時間平靜下來
that we should just hit the brakes,
too fast around a bend can derail,
轉彎的時候會脫軌
too slowly around a bend can also derail.
starts with the understanding
than we think we do,
ourselves to go faster.
for hurricane victims
what we need on the spot,
to make our surroundings feel slower
out of the speedy experience.
stimulated all the time.
but it gives us time to reflect.
但我們卻有了時間深思
what it means to save time.
build in slowness,
our shared values and connect.
強化共同的理念和連結
a critical part of being human.
必須仔細端詳我們犧牲了什麼
the trade-offs of any given technology.
can use to express your humanity?
讓你更有人性?
Will it give other people hurry sickness?
或是讓周遭的人也為之所苦?
that you want to travel through life,
both to speed up
the technologies of speed,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kathryn Bouskill - Anthropologist, social scientistKathryn Bouskill's work explores how our health is shaped as much by our biology as it is by our behaviors and cultural contexts.
Why you should listen
Kathryn Bouskill began her research as a teenager at the lab bench before developing an interest in how our health is shaped as much by our biology as it is by our behaviors and social and cultural contexts. Today, she is an anthropologist at the RAND Corporation and associate director of the RAND Center for Global Risk and Security, where she applies ethnographic methods to understand the human dimensions of systems analysis and policy research.
For more than a decade, Bouskill has explored the relationship between culture, technology, policy and health. She has performed research in ten countries on five continents and believes that everyone has an important story to tell. Her latest research asks how the acceleration of daily life is shaping our wellbeing, how different cultures make sense of a faster world and what we as a society risk if we do not plan ahead for the promises -- and perils -- of emerging technologies. Her work is publicly available and covers a range of topics, from the future of global health security to data use for decision-making in health care.
A former Fulbright scholar in Austria, Bouskill continues her passion for using cultural diplomacy to build international cooperation. She also teaches doctoral fellows at the Pardee RAND Graduate School how to turn policy problems into empirical research projects and why it is critical to bring people into policy analysis. Bouskill has a BA in anthropology from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in anthropology and an MPH in epidemiology from Emory University.
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