Adrian Bejan | The iPhone and Obesity

Adrian Bejan talks about denser packages that become lighter things to carry, and he connects this to what you want with your desires. He says that wanting bigger leads necessarily leads to opting for smaller objects, and he calls this the evolution of this technology toward miniaturization. He notes that what you have in your iPhone isn't this because the iPhone doesn’t have a fan inside, and he mentions a next, third variation on this theme. He says we like things that are smaller because we want to carry more of this artificial intelligence with us, beginning with arithmetic. He then links this to metabolism and to obesity, using the donkey, the whale, and the goose from Alaska flying to New Zealand, obese, where extra weight and so-called fat can be good under extreme circumstances for power and insulation in cold air at altitude in darkness.

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