One thing we won’t do with PRiSM is duplicate functionality which already exists elsewhere.
An organ contains some hundred billion cells and the body is made up of about 100 organs and limbs..If we look more broadly into the living world, we can see that size and scale are really important factors in function, efficiency, and survival.
Human beings are not accidentally the size we are.We’re a size that allows us to travel long distances.We developed in the Rift Valley in Africa, a landscape that was rapidly changing, in relative terms, creating new and diverse habitats.
To survive and exploit this, we needed to be able to travel, develop technologies (fire and tools), problem solve, and adapt.Homo erectus, our earlier cousin, could do all these things and spread out globally surviving and developing for a million years.
Interestingly, Homo sapiens, us, developing later and in parallel were a bit smaller.
The current view is that the advantage was size and reduced testosterone leading to less aggression and the ability to create and work in large social groups.. Mammals, themselves really came into their own after the last mass-extinction event some 65 million years ago.We need to enable a connected ecosystem and a connected tissue between all these foundational products to really make this work.
And I see examples of it all the time.”.Marks talks about the convergence that’s happening between industries, companies, processes and products.
The world is getting smaller than it ever was before, she says, and it’s creating greater opportunity.She points out that 10-15 years ago she wouldn’t have been able to get in the room with the kinds of big companies she’s meeting with now.
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