>Instead of focusing our intellect, our will, and our drive upon eradicating world poverty
I'd love to eradicate world poverty, and cure depression also. But you can't do that with gadgets, can you? And what will anyone pay you for in tech other than gadgets? You still have to keep yourself from slipping into poverty, using only the skillset you actually have (rather than flooding the nonprofit and government sectors with workers they can't even afford to hire right now), while also somehow eradicating poverty and curing depression.
There's a reason HBO's Silicon Valley made "Making the world a better place" into an ironic slogan, and it's because all the techno-wizardry in the world, short of a few scifi dreams like replicators and AGI, can only do so much against what are fundamentally social problems, problems of small groups of humans refusing to share technology and its outputs.
Fuck, the best I can think of right now is: would ultra-low-power computing maybe help ameliorate the power-consumption issues that exacerbate global warming? Or would they just make the world emit even more carbon?
I'd love to eradicate world poverty, and cure depression also. But you can't do that with gadgets, can you? And what will anyone pay you for in tech other than gadgets? You still have to keep yourself from slipping into poverty, using only the skillset you actually have (rather than flooding the nonprofit and government sectors with workers they can't even afford to hire right now), while also somehow eradicating poverty and curing depression.
There's a reason HBO's Silicon Valley made "Making the world a better place" into an ironic slogan, and it's because all the techno-wizardry in the world, short of a few scifi dreams like replicators and AGI, can only do so much against what are fundamentally social problems, problems of small groups of humans refusing to share technology and its outputs.
Fuck, the best I can think of right now is: would ultra-low-power computing maybe help ameliorate the power-consumption issues that exacerbate global warming? Or would they just make the world emit even more carbon?