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Just remember: you can't fix society with technology. Everything you do is a weapon. In the wrong hands it will harm other people.
by GoToRO 8y ago
Just remember: you can't fix society with technology. Everything you do is a weapon. In the wrong hands it will harm other people.
- sova 8y agoA weapon or a tool, it is the intention and the skillful hand that selects.
- antocv 8y agoSome things can only be a weapon, other things may be used as a weapon. Huge difference, what the intent is of what you are building.
- EdgarVerona 8y agoDefinitely - and the intent of the business model and the business itself. I've worked on products before that on the surface (and even what I was told by the folks running it) could have done good. But the company had no intention of using it for good. They had every intention of lying about where they were really making their money though. I feel like all the justification we see in our industry of "it's just a tool, it's not our fault if it's used poorly" can often end up being a variant of the banality of evil. What if its most obvious use case is the malicious one? What if the company paying you to make it has the malicious use case of the tool in mind? Would the company and the product exist/be sustainable without the malicious use case? Are there ways to curb the malicious use case that are being ignored - intentionally or not? We've got to start asking ourselves these questions. The ACM and IEEE would insist that it is part of our core duty to be asking these questions.
- andbberger 8y agoSure you can, but it won't be easy or necessarily profitable