Today is United Nations day. Which reminds me that the self-appointed techno-optimism Pope has declared Sustainable Development Goals the enemy. I don't know w

Today is United Nations day. Which reminds me that the self-appointed techno-optimism Pope has declared Sustainable Development Goals the enemy. I don't know what is brewing in VC land, probably something totally inane like assuming eternal zero interest rates, but I kinda like its impact. If the supposed pinnacle of that clan is reduced to incoherent rants and a long list of cliche discredited slogans that make no sense and are devoid of any empathy for the human condition that can only be a good thing. But it is indeed a call to every decent soul out there to replace that anti-humanist manifesto with true techno-optimism. For it is obvious that what past and current technology have broken can only be fixed by using at least some technology. And that alternate future technologies are needed to get us to safe and enjoyable places. And that these technologies, adapted to serve rather than abuse humanity, need not be boring but can get the blood of any true technologist going. Technologies, btw, like wikipedia, which the other sociopath du-jour has declared a dickipedia. We need to reclaim everything that is important in technology from the minority of these odious people that equate their ego with our collective destiny. But that task cannot happen without reclaiming first social technologies. Things like accounting and money and corporate structures and securities markets and contracts and regulations and incentives. We need to make these tools sociopath-proof. Society's rewards should not accrue to the most cynical and exploitative of human weakness.