Shuya Gong is a venture designer with a background in mechanical engineering. Currently she is a Design Director at IDEO. She is focused on systems change and collaborative innovation, with an expertise in emerging technologies, circularity, and futuring. She is also a design innovation fellow and lecturer at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her fascinations include learning about herbal healing from her father's practice, quantum mechanics, and how plants communicate. Talk to her about living life without plastic, rapid prototyping, and the dystopian (and utopian!) ways technology might change our daily lives.
In this episode we speak about:
Web3 as a way to prototype a new economy
Churches as an early example of decentralization
The emotional state of technology
Responsible innovation
How we create and share “cyber-physical space”
Anonymous leadership and holding ourselves accountable
The foundational paradoxes of of emerging tech
Resources
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuyagong/
https://www.ideocolab.com/
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