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Moving from Dependency, Wastefulness and Risk Toward Sustainability and Resilience Through Designed Systems

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Technology, automation, and their related systems, have been put in place to add efficiency and convenience to our lives, allowing modern cultures to live prosperous and “easy” lives compared to most cultures throughout history. Our lives of ease have many desirable attributes but, we have simultaneously developed a high level of dependency and a lack of resilience in the face of many common challenges. Through intentional and strategic design, our society could be nudged into a philosophical shift toward a life of resilience, independence, and greater humanness.

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    Carlton R. Lay

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Lay, C.R. (2020). Moving from Dependency, Wastefulness and Risk Toward Sustainability and Resilience Through Designed Systems. In: Shin, C. (eds) Advances in Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 968. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20470-9_21

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