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...the more minds there are collaborating to realize human potential, eliminate needless suffering, and healing our planet, the better. There is simply nothing else worth pursuing that has lasting value. Please explain how in the early days of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs you'd know that they were going to help humanity? The whole heal-the-planet argument is very different from do-something-challenging. You and the auth…
1.) They are not different at all. We have to 'do something' to fix our civilization's problems or 'heal our planet'. That doing part is where startups come into the picture. 2.) You ever read Steve Wozniack's autobiography? If you haven't, you don't know the full story. They believed a PC could do a lot more than just crunch numbers, it could realize creative and scientific potential. Steve J. believed computers wer…
You seen the slide decks or talked to the founders in the Valley? If you are going on vision, trust me, today's founders are not short on it.
Now, how good of a job the founders are doing in bringing their vision to life? We don't know and won't know for a while. At best, we should hold judgement IMO.
This generation will yield many more scientists inspired to create technology that serves Earth.
May be. But that could also mean that you no longer need to be a scientist to build something that serves earth. You could just be some econ grad who gets an idea for a micro-lending site and launches Kiva.
Also, it's unfair that you see Facebook's mission of connecting people or Twitter's role during emergencies in a different realm to Apple making computing simpler.