Sentences with phrase «already in a feedback loop»

James Lovelock, of Gaia Hypothesis fame, says it's too late, the game's up, the climate is already in a feedback loop - «and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.»

Not exact matches

The feedback loop of the city making itself attractive to start - ups and start - ups helping to make the city attractive to talented young people (who in turn create more businesses that attract more young people) is only getting started, but Robinson says he can already see the effects both in terms of the area's legitimacy — «people are saying, «hey, I would actually invest here or I would start my business here» as opposed to 10 years ago where people would avoid the city at all costs» — and quality of life for young people.

Because most of these companies are based in Silicon Valley, this creates a «feedback loop» where the money that's already located there stays concentrated there.

Scientists worry that a runaway «positive feedback» loop, in which one event reinforces or strengthens the next, is already taking place, with fewer plants leading to less rain, leading to still fewer plants, and so on.

We've already seen how social media creates a warped sense of reality for many people who bathe in its echolalic feeds... when we integrate those feedback loops and mass communication potential into the surface of reality, our minds (and how we define them) will be altered for good — and I hope Molly helps make sure that is it for good, and not ill.

All well and good, except for the fact that another several or more degrees C is already baked into the system, which will only exacerbate the 60 or so feedback loops already in play, which will then handily draw down the shade on the human experiment.

What they all agree on is that Arctic methane emissions from both clathrates and rapidly thawing permafrost are horrific and dangerous and are very probably already in a runaway feedback loop that could according to the worst - case scenario produce 10 deg.

Eventually, as part of the overall transformation of law firms into sophisticated professional businesses, Marketing and Sales will be unified and the continuum / feedback loop will operate correctly as a matter of course (this is already underway in the sharpest firms).

In addition to this bandwidth extension, Synechron's specialized financial services knowledge has already been a valuable feedback loop, so that we are setting our agenda to prioritize how to evolve the technology according to the unique needs of the financial services industry.»