The editor in chief of publisher of MIT Technology Reviews, Jason Pontin starts his TED talk saying that we used to solve big problem, for exemple the problem of travelling to the moon.
They didn't bring much back from the moon but they did because it was hard. However, the first half of the 20th produced many technological triumphs such as: penicillin and vaccune for tuberculosis, polio was erradicated and smallpox eliminated... Nevertheless, this trust in technolgy vanished because no one could travel faster than the Apollo 11 crew in 1970. They promised to travel to Mars whereas they solved trivial issues. So what happened? Silicon valley says that it has been funding less ambitious companies, the markets are to blame...In addition Jason says that people prefer small investings rather than a long term.
Technology advances had made great discoveries and achievements but they haven't solved humanity's big problems. There are four elements that don't allow us to solve problems: sometimes we choose not to solve our problems, sometimes our political system fails, sometimes the problem isn't really technological and sometimes we don't understand the problem. We have to understand that things aren't as their were before, so the solutions of the future will be harder won.
They didn't bring much back from the moon but they did because it was hard. However, the first half of the 20th produced many technological triumphs such as: penicillin and vaccune for tuberculosis, polio was erradicated and smallpox eliminated... Nevertheless, this trust in technolgy vanished because no one could travel faster than the Apollo 11 crew in 1970. They promised to travel to Mars whereas they solved trivial issues. So what happened? Silicon valley says that it has been funding less ambitious companies, the markets are to blame...In addition Jason says that people prefer small investings rather than a long term.
Technology advances had made great discoveries and achievements but they haven't solved humanity's big problems. There are four elements that don't allow us to solve problems: sometimes we choose not to solve our problems, sometimes our political system fails, sometimes the problem isn't really technological and sometimes we don't understand the problem. We have to understand that things aren't as their were before, so the solutions of the future will be harder won.
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