As water levels continue to fluctuate across the globe, escalating and depreciating beyond comfortable margins of predictability or what the market will bear, the specter of our activity comes into sharp focus under the glare-free scope of a precision instrument - human cognition. Isabelle Rousset will deliver an update to the project Nature Happens in view of upcoming digifest participation at the end of March. This installment will attempt to draw the necessary connections to unify a body of research, scenarios, disclosures and opportunities determined.

Spencer's research looks at current cultural signals alongside present thinking patterns around fuel consumption, while visualizing a future in which the shift towards spiritual embodiment of our world's most controversial resource, and a legacy-based economic model, support holistic sustainability from the bottom up. Scaling this ideology imposes new meaning on the term corporate responsibility, increasing the ability for companies to respond to the environment without massive disruption.

This investigation further seeks to understand how conventional, traditional, and otherwise symmetrical conditions can be observed, understood and transformed into disruptive, unconventional, and asymmetrical opportunities for innovation.

With the existential threat of a post-biological future in which humankind and many of the Earth's complex lifeforms are either extinct or in irreversible decline, circumstances relating the actions of industrial civilization to its unfolding consequences now indicate that a transition between geological epochs is apparently close at hand.

If the 'anthropocene' is a veritable byproduct of industrialization, it portends a need on our part to effect a transition in our use of science and technology. First, as a means of redacting some of the errors that a minority of humankind have written into the world. Second, to question the social construction of the human body as a thing possessing a sacred, inviolable nature. If emerging fields in science and technology indicate that synthetic biology is a way forward, the effect may be to 'pull' human evolution along this path also, so that the 'part' of which an individual is representative is indissociable from the 'whole' of ecosystems, industries and economies comprising future models for sustainable human habitation, production and organization. The conception of the body may be the first casualty in our efforts to live and survive in the 'anthropocene.'

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