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Sometimes technological solutions work really well to solve social problems. For example, at one point, one person using the internet would tie up the phone li
by waterhouse 5y ago
Sometimes technological solutions work really well to solve social problems. For example, at one point, one person using the internet would tie up the phone line for everyone else in the house, and vice versa. Negotiating this shared resource could be considered a household social problem. But now there's no such interference, and most people have their own cell phones.
- tnzm 5y agoThis is a social problem around the shared use of a technological resource. I'm reminded of the old saying, "computers can only solve problems that are created with computers". But then again you can view _all_ solutions to social problems as inherently technological in the broader sense; I adhere to that paradigm.
- robertlagrant 5y agoThat saying seems silly. Computers (i.e. Zoom) help with the problem of needing socially distanced education during Covid lockdowns.