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That's exactly it. I sometimes wonder how many brilliant people have left this industry because they were similarly enlightened. (One prominent person in appl
by david927 12y ago
That's exactly it. I sometimes wonder how many brilliant people have left this industry because they were similarly enlightened. (One prominent person in applied computer science recently told me she was considering going to go into medicine because she wanted to do something useful.)
It doesn't have to be like this. We have the brain power. But I feel we squander it on making silly websites/apps when we could be making history.
- jsprogrammer 12y agoI think the previous poster already identified the problem: >I follow the money for survival Maybe we can have a system where people can survive without money?
- colund 12y agoNice, however that would remove an incentive for innovation
- perfunctory 12y ago> incentive for innovation Do you think Alan Kay was incentivised by money to do all the stuff he talked about in this video?
- minthd 12y agoOK - so alan kay did working on creating this great system. Is there any knowledge from it used in a practical application today ? Probably no, because a.It's probably too soon. b.It often takes boring work(and money) to transfer pure ideas to successful practical applications.
- perfunctory 12y agowe were talking about insentives for innovation, not insentives for boring work. I agree that boring work should be insentivised by money.
- jsprogrammer 12y agoI'd be interesting in going the course of: boring work should be eliminated through automation or obsolescence.
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- jsprogrammer 12y agoI don't think anything says you can't use another incentive. Innovate or die (literally), doesn't seem like the wisest philosophy to base life on this planet around.
- Retra 12y agoWho paid you for your comment? Take a look at this thread -- scroll all the way to the bottom. What is the incentive for all of that?
- dredmorbius 12y agoSee Keith Weslowski's recent split. I suspect a similar calculus may have inspired Joey Hess's retreat to a farm. I can think of others: jwz, Bret Glass, Cringely.
- sukilot 12y agoYou know what medical professinals do? Get patients healthy so the patients can enjoy apps and sites.
- scotty79 12y agoI know about one such person that after having successful IT Business career moved to another country (mine) and became neurosurgeon (at absurdly stupidly low pay that doctors in my country get).