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Most of these issues are not technological problems. Housing is not really a problem outside of certain big cities, and in those cities it's a problem due to c

by t-3 5y ago

Most of these issues are not technological problems. Housing is not really a problem outside of certain big cities, and in those cities it's a problem due to corruption. If you can come up with a technology to defeat corruption and make society perfect, you might as well change your name to God. I'm not sure where you see health as lacking, but it seems to be on the rise everywhere if you ignore the ongoing but temporary distortion caused by covid. Technology certainly can play a big role in making healthcare more accessible and available, but tech will not, for example, get universal healthcare for US citizens. Income and opportunity inequality is mostly a social/legal issue, and tech has tended to exacerbate inequality rather than reduce it. Like healthcare, tech can improve access for some, but global variation in infrastructure, economy, population, etc. will always leave some people with less resources or opportunity than others. People being mean, committing crimes, lying, will never be stopped by technology. Technology is an enabler, if you want to stop things you need to reach for social pressure. Bullshit jobs will only be gone when the expectation that every individual slave away 8*5*350*55 or be worthless scum of society is gone. That's a social issue, not a technological one.

908B64B197 5y ago
> 1. Housing. Housing is working as expected really. Our policies have made it an investment vehicle that can't lose any value for political reasons. > 2. Health. You are looking at an over-regulated hellscape that's extremely gate-keeped all over the world (this is by design). In America it's effectively regional monopolies (the AMA decides who gets in, and lookup Certificate of Need). Foreign countries with a single payer system might look attractive as a starting point but then keep in mind your only customer will be... the Government. Single payer means a single buyer and that's never good for business. > 3 & 4 Too vague. > 5. Bullshit jobs. This one has a tremendous potential. Automation-tech is very real. Remember this by Google back in 2018[0]. Seriously, it's like programming for human organizations and there's a lot of potential growth. Offshoring these tasks ended up being a disaster; now is the perfect opportunity to simply automate. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbHu_bVa_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbHu_bVa_g
eternityforest 5y ago
Better transportation tech would be needed to live outside those cities with the same convenience. Better green tech would be needed to make it as energy efficient as the city. Tech can definitely help. I see a distinct lack of cheap mass spectrometry. With a billion dollars and a contract to sell millions of them... they seem to be able to mass produce almost anything. At the very least, why can our phones not detect fevers?

by t-3 5y ago

908B64B197 5y ago

> 1. Housing. Housing is working as expected really. Our policies have made it an investment vehicle that can't lose any value for political reasons. > 2. Health. You are looking at an over-regulated hellscape that's extremely gate-keeped all over the world (this is by design). In America it's effectively regional monopolies (the AMA decides who gets in, and lookup Certificate of Need). Foreign countries with a single payer system might look attractive as a starting point but then keep in mind your only customer will be... the Government. Single payer means a single buyer and that's never good for business. > 3 & 4 Too vague. > 5. Bullshit jobs. This one has a tremendous potential. Automation-tech is very real. Remember this by Google back in 2018[0]. Seriously, it's like programming for human organizations and there's a lot of potential growth. Offshoring these tasks ended up being a disaster; now is the perfect opportunity to simply automate. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbHu_bVa_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbHu_bVa_g

eternityforest 5y ago

Better transportation tech would be needed to live outside those cities with the same convenience. Better green tech would be needed to make it as energy efficient as the city. Tech can definitely help. I see a distinct lack of cheap mass spectrometry. With a billion dollars and a contract to sell millions of them... they seem to be able to mass produce almost anything. At the very least, why can our phones not detect fevers?