Re:We call ourselves innovators, but most of us are really j...
by kurtko on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @02:39PM
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> Having enough surplus capital that we can take a three day trip to the Moon seems pretty First World to me.
Today, perhaps, but in retrospect our first manned moon mission probably bdid more for 20th-Century technology than any other single project.
Having enough surplus capital that we can take a three day trip to the Moon seems pretty First World to me.
Which technologists worked on "ending poverty" as a primary goal? Did we stop working on ending disease? We can't seem to decide whether we are spending way too much on ending disease or way too little.
Articles like this keep popping up but they don't really seem to have any point other than being self-congratulatory to the author and likeminded audiences for how much they care about Important Things instead of Uber, which is just for taking a car from SFO to Moscone (oh wait except it's not, it actually turns out to have side effects that are significant benefits to immigrant women who would otherwise be shut out of the cab industry: http://transpoplanner.tumblr.com/post/40777853649/is-uber-em...).