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Yes, I agree -- seeing our best minds work on our lamest problems is distressing. Though arguably, it's an improvement from the previous condition, in in which
by aaronharnly 12y ago
Yes, I agree -- seeing our best minds work on our lamest problems is distressing. Though arguably, it's an improvement from the previous condition, in in which our best technology was primarily used to produce weapons of war.
At least some of the products of the social media & web advertising era give people access to information and one another, two fundamental human drives. That's a bit better than "better technology to persuade people to buy stuff."
- unknownian 12y ago>seeing our best minds work on our lamest problems is distressing I've seen this a lot, and it's probably true. But because of cuts to research and capitalism's "market failure" as Gates calls it, when it comes to research, does it really matter? The highly motivated and brilliant people will go off into research anyway. The fault isn't the people of course, it's the markets.