
S2 Ep14: Ariba Jahan - Diversity, Assumptioms and Structural Change
Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
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The Importance of Social Impact in Technology
I think the first time I really saw how something you could be doing in a tool ends up impacting someone's life experience was when we were designing or redesigning a device that's used to squeeze glue into lung tissue. Especially at thoracic surgery, you know, when someone has lung cancer and they have to cut away a bit of the lung tissue,. And our team project was to redesign that sealant distribution device so that it's easier. We all sat down and were like, oh crap, we need to learn 3D modeling. So then what was interesting is she was pretty much as tall as me, which means we were tiny people. She's, I'm 4'11
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