At our best, we as the hacking + doing and building community are both inextricably part of and trying to change society. This story manages to cut across a sw

At our best, we as the hacking + doing and building community are both inextricably part of and trying to change society. This story manages to cut across a swath of different social issues: race, gender (I falsely assumed that it was a woman writing when the first instance of 'husband' was mentioned) gay marriage, the extraordinary power given to the family court system and even the urban versus rural divide. I don't think this article is going to kick off a bunch of startups that are "like Instragram but for abandoned babies in a subway", but I do think we are in a unique position to potentially effect the lives of millions of people with the output of our work and being more mindful of stories in the larger society can only help that.