Gregory's Server@evan I like these. Are you able to explain "seven generations, seven continents" a bit more please?
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 @ironchamber @u24 I made it up. "Seven generations" is a term that means thinking three generations backwards and three forwards. Seven continents is one way of dividing up the world, meaning, don't just think of the US and maybe Europe. @evan @ironchamber @u24 Ah, I got the generations bit, but was googling for the continents part @evan @ironchamber @u24 ROW Genevieve Bell tells a wonderful story about arriving at Intel unsure exactly what they want an anthropologist for and discovering they want someone to explain 'women' and 'rest of world' which she sums up as 'everyone who doesn't work here'  @evan @ironchamber @u24 Out of curiosity, where does the 3 forwards/3 backwards concept originate? And when one thinks 3 generations backwards, what would you have them think about? Also an FYI that this competing 7-generations concept exists and is what I thought you might have meant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_generation_sustainability |
@u24 @evan agreed, this is the first I’m hearing this phrase