Jack Dangermond : How a geospatial nervous system could help us design a better future

 Jack Dangermond·TED Salon: Brightline Initiative
How a geospatial nervous system could help us design a better future 
Summary 

First, we have to know about GIS which is a geographic information system. 

It provides the ability to capture and analyze spatial and geographic data. Furthermore, it allows the users to create, edit, analyze spatial information output and share the results of those. 

It’s attached to various operations, numerous applications, engineering, planning, management, transport, logistics, insurance, telecommunications, and businesses like maps or spreading nerves in your brain!! Thus, the title called it a geospatial nervous system. 

The key is to be able to design holistically. It has physical, environmental, demographic features and can look at the whole, not just make money, not just conserve something, not just measure and not just analyze something. 

By using this, we must better understand the world’s biggest challenges simply and holistically when we look at the maps. 

The speaker is a pioneer in GIS and tells that we can see unifier, integrators of the individual systems into systems of systems that can talk to the world and transform the world. (What? and Hahaha!)