META/Systems at Scale

I loved the discussion from reading Designing Systems at Scale. The examples the article gave very clearly pointed out that in order to design a large scale system it is essential to start at human scale. We talked about HIV/AIDS and we agreed that the epidemic could not be solved with one step. It would have to be solved by a measure that would not be humane, and unethical and something we are not willing willing to do. If the larger goal is broken down into something smaller and more manageable, like educating the African American youth in middle school, then the design solutions would be at a realistic goal we can possibly reach. The article mentions the importance of being a visionary, explaining the goal as a bigger picture, changing the goals of a small community. Change starts with education, if we could educate the communities that are more prone to any social problem, then we are thinking on a bigger scale with small scale action.