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A comment on Ask HN: How do you find meaning in tech when it net destroys means of living?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you find meaning in tech when it net destr... by evolve2k on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:05PM (#18260429)
I would encourage you to be grateful for the privilege you have in working in tech and pair that with your personal values of making a positive contribution.

There are stacks of social issues locally to you and beyond that benefit from tech improvements.

The technology is progressing anyway, bring your focus to ensuring that tech is deployed for the greatest social benefit and call others to your cause you’ll soon find like minded folk.

Anyone have good examples of social projects that are based around using tech for social good they can share?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find meaning in tech when it net destr... by evolve2k on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:11PM (#18260470)
The hive project comes to mind - bee colony collapse is a big issue globally. This project using raspberry pi to make a simple monitoring tool to improve colony health and crowd source global data.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/plan-bee

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