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Within my lifetime, inventions requiring new science have had a much better chance of changing the world than changes requiring solving social coordination prob
by kybernetikos 12y ago
Within my lifetime, inventions requiring new science have had a much better chance of changing the world than changes requiring solving social coordination problems.
The fact that so many startups are now "full stack" reflects the difficulty of solving even extremely simple social coordination problems.
- sgift 12y agoThat's a good point which reflects the prosperous times we live in. Looking back at history these times seem to be the exception rather than the rule. In the end I fear that we cannot hope that "science will solve all of our problems", because science by its very nature is "hard". There are no guarantees that things will work out and we could very well land again in a period of time where science hits only dead-ends for many years. In that case we'd either live without any progress or we invest effort into using the solutions we already have.