If public servants perceive their jobs as repetitive and mechanical, i.e., with no margin of autonomy, innovation and new solutions become less likely.

Completely mechanical. This whole machine is mechanical.

These are little mechanical computers.

It's completely mechanical, again, a printer.

So you think of alternative mechanical parts.

Well, they can communicate through mechanical forces.

They're embedded with mechanical electrical devices, sensors.

Dust is generally formed by mechanical processes.

That's wrong because the theory is quantum mechanical.

Now, of course, Babbage's machine was entirely mechanical.

And it's walked away. I mean, it's that mechanical.

In the curved part there's all the mechanical equipment.

(b) Determine the mechanical properties of the asteroid material

Is it simply the byproduct of a crude mechanical action?

So my uncle is only dealing with a mechanical interface.

This is Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen's mechanical chess playing machine.

He taught me all sorts of things about mechanical things.

It's a mechanical solution to a problem, instead of using mechatronics.

It doesn't matter if your computer's mechanical, like Babbage's was, or electronic, like computers are today, or perhaps in the future, cells, or, again, mechanical again, once we get into nanotechnology.

It started with tiny quantum mechanical fluctuations, but expanding at a tremendous rate.

This process is an engineering problem, a mechanical problem, a logistical problem, an operational problem.

Buildings are colonized by airborne microbes that enter through windows and through mechanical ventilation systems.

Narrator The mechanical beasts will not get their energy from food, but from the wind.

But ultrasound can be shaped to be anything in between, because it's a mechanical force.

Durable solutions

It's a little mechanical pen that has very, very fast step motors inside of the pen.

We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process it's an organic process.

But it's remote. It's remote and accessible so it's safe and we don't depend on mechanical refrigeration.

Once they're fully deployed, there's a mechanical lock that goes into place, again, from inside the cockpit.

A little, tiny guy walks along. More servo drives, lots of servo hacking, lots of mechanical stuff.

So this is just a mechanical engineering sort of embodiment of it for you to play with.

So, based on that success, the following year we did the proper mechanical design starting from kinematics.

Difficulties and Solutions

Farmers that rely on nature for solutions, for answers, rather than imposing solutions on nature.

This was the inspiration for a web service by Amazon called the Mechanical Turk named after this guy.

We decided to use the Mechanical Turk for exactly what it was meant for, which is making money.

The result of the invention of the steam engine was that human power was replaced by mechanical power.

They need political solutions.

A Global Solutions Network

Look for solutions within.

Difficulties, constraints and solutions

Outstanding problems and solutions

Solutions structures and tools

Because these solutions are natural, these solutions are sustainable, and these solutions are long term investments long term investments that we're making for our generation and for future generations.

So the last Mechanical Turk project I'm going to talk to you about is called Bicycle Built for 2000.