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When we have gotten ourselves in an economy that encourage smart people to dedicate weeks to think about how to get people to buy as many silly virtual stickers
by worldsayshi 13y ago
When we have gotten ourselves in an economy that encourage smart people to dedicate weeks to think about how to get people to buy as many silly virtual stickers and virtual packages of gold as possible to progress in games designed to get uncritical people to get hooked, it feels like it's time to get out, move to some remote place and start hacking on something that is actually important.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoNobody is stopping you. There is the door. Add to your list commenting on articles about said technologies on a site for nerds.
- worldsayshi 13y agoYou are quite right.
- rubinelli 13y agoI don't mind if really smart people decide to spend their time building cute chat apps and games. I think that, if a virtual sticker makes someone smile, it's earned its 170 yen. For me, it's the smart people that are building surveillance systems and killer drones that are wasting their lives.
- worldsayshi 13y agoWhile I mostly agree - that surveillance drone technology could and will probably be used over again for beneficent purposes as well.