Re:Time To Get Past Facebook And Invent A New Future
by eli_gottlieb on Thursday April 19, 2012 @09:57PM
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I went to school to become an engineer (I'm 24) because I thought that computers and the internet were going to make invention and innovation possible even for people who did not work for industrial laboratories. Maybe the hugely reduced barriers to entry into the technology sector that resulted from cheap computers and good programming tools would lead young and eager people of brilliance to found ambitious companies to finally -- aren't we all sick of being exasperated by the mediocrity of culture and politics in the past 20 years? -- steer human life into better modes of existence and a new frontier of boldness. Sure, the internet cannot do this all on its own, but is such a powerful and promising tool, that maybe it would start things.
I hate to sound all Statler-and-Waldorf on you, but DO-HO-HO-HO!!!!!
Technology is not going to change our social system. Our technology is fine and dandy. Our social system is increasingly shitty.
So the real question is: how do you take anti-profitable activities like fixing our social system (ie: wealth redistribution) and make them profitable?
I hate to sound all Statler-and-Waldorf on you, but DO-HO-HO-HO!!!!!
Technology is not going to change our social system. Our technology is fine and dandy. Our social system is increasingly shitty.
So the real question is: how do you take anti-profitable activities like fixing our social system (ie: wealth redistribution) and make them profitable?