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>> Working on search or data classification technology that has applications to obsoleting workers and putting them out of a job = not evil? Possibly, if that
by NhanH 13y ago
>> Working on search or data classification technology that has applications to obsoleting workers and putting them out of a job = not evil?
Possibly, if that technology also allows us to, says, cure cancer?
Hyperbole aside, putting workers out of jobs are apple-and-watermelon different than "helping" the military industry (spying or otherwise).
And I'm fairly sure that the complaint of too much focus on the ads industry isn't particularly rare either.
- skore 13y ago> And I'm fairly sure that the complaint of too much focus on the ads industry isn't particularly rare either. It was actually the basis for my adopted quote: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads, that sucks.”