Can technology solve our big problems?
Jason Pontin starts talking about Apolo to
contextualise the importance of technology. They explains the resources used to
arrive to the moon and then the motive why the government wanted to go to the
moon. "The stronger emotion was of wonder at the transcendent power of
technology". Landed on the moon was a result of great technological peak
advances such as penicillin, the airplane...
But nowadays technology gives us
trivial toys like iPhone or iPad, but tech can't solve the great problems of
humanity. Silicon Valley it has
the clue of that: they
have the created less ambitious companies and the role of venture
capitalists to stop creating transformational ideas, but for incremental
funding problems or false problems. They have always preferred small
investments and they have put aside the investment for the development of
technologies, which require a large capital.
Another answer to that point is
sometimes we choose not to solve big problems because of the failures of
politics. Not to develop alternative energies or not to end the famine lies in
political problems. Apolo has become a metaphor for the ability of technology
to sort out our problems, but first we must try.
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