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This is an underrated point. I believe that as an average techie, your highest social impact is in building the tools required to solve these problems. We don
by IpV8 10y ago
This is an underrated point. I believe that as an average techie, your highest social impact is in building the tools required to solve these problems. We don't need better phones and advertisements, we need better tools for out scientists and doctors. I currently build research devices for applications in marine science and water quality research. Though my day to day is a bit removed from the social benefit, it is uplifting to hear about the companies and universities that but these products to good use.
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- marmot777 10y agoYes, agreed, strangly underrated, as perhaps most people have their awareness of tools running in the background. We already see the importance of tools so it's not a hard leap to understand EVERY domain needs better tools to be more effective. Your day is close enough to the action. My dad, a mechanical engineer, worked on part of the breathing apparatus used in the Apollo program. That's a part of that problem, small and perhaps not glamorous but close enough. I'd say you're damn close. Closer than I've ever been to anything real unless you count buying a programmable robot vacuum cleaner kit instead of the normal one so I could in theory program my vacuum cleaner to do cool stuff, not to mention at modules!