Technology Saves the World
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Technology Saves the World
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Re: Technology Saves the World
#2This is Andreessen trolling to get traffic on their new publication website... Obviously technology is not saving the world. Sure we made a vaccine for a disease that was bad. But technology is mostly responsible for propagating it in the first place.
And climate change, you know.
EDIT: also on HN front page, fully autonomous killer drones are being mass-produced.
Re: Technology Saves the World
#3This is Andreessen trolling to get traffic on their new publication website... Obviously technology is not saving the world. Sure we made a vaccine for a disease that was bad. But technology is mostly responsible for propagating it in the first place. And climate change, you know. EDIT: also on HN front page, fully autonomous killer drones are being mass-produced.
hmm, I'm not sure I agree with all points made in this post, but surely two things can be true at once? In other words, yes technology introduces problems (possibly the pandemic, as you stated), but might it not also provide the remedy?
Re: Technology Saves the World
#4This is Andreessen trolling to get traffic on their new publication website... Obviously technology is not saving the world. Sure we made a vaccine for a disease that was bad. But technology is mostly responsible for propagating it in the first place. And climate change, you know. EDIT: also on HN front page, fully autonomous killer drones are being mass-produced.
Exactly, humanity will not be able to "technology" itself out of the climate crisis. There's no better carbon removal technology than our most efficient trees.
Re: Technology Saves the World
#5This is Andreessen trolling to get traffic on their new publication website... Obviously technology is not saving the world. Sure we made a vaccine for a disease that was bad. But technology is mostly responsible for propagating it in the first place. And climate change, you know. EDIT: also on HN front page, fully autonomous killer drones are being mass-produced.
A technology creates externalities. Another technology neutralizes those externalities.
Given that we're unlikely (or unwilling) to put technological genies back in the bottle, what else can we hope for?
Re: Technology Saves the World
#6This is Andreessen trolling to get traffic on their new publication website... Obviously technology is not saving the world. Sure we made a vaccine for a disease that was bad. But technology is mostly responsible for propagating it in the first place. And climate change, you know. EDIT: also on HN front page, fully autonomous killer drones are being mass-produced.
Exactly, humanity will not be able to "technology" itself out of the climate crisis. There's no better carbon removal technology than our most efficient trees.
Even were that true we'd be better off with fusion-powered stacked greenhouses of them.
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#7>Moderna, a product of the American venture capital system
Moderna got a government grant to do the mRNA work didn't they? Seems a product of public investment.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/years-of-research-laid-g...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/24/fac...
https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
Re: Technology Saves the World
#8This is Andreessen trolling to get traffic on their new publication website... Obviously technology is not saving the world. Sure we made a vaccine for a disease that was bad. But technology is mostly responsible for propagating it in the first place. And climate change, you know. EDIT: also on HN front page, fully autonomous killer drones are being mass-produced.
hmm, I'm not sure I agree with all points made in this post, but surely two things can be true at once? In other words, yes technology introduces problems (possibly the pandemic, as you stated), but might it not also provide the remedy?
>> yes technology introduces problems (possibly the pandemic, as you stated), but might it not also provide the remedy?
Sure, but even with the "remedy" we still had 600k deaths in the US and 3.8M globally. Not to mention the other problems caused by technology that are don't have a remedy yet, aka Climate crisis. I do agree with the comment above that we can't technology our way out of the climate crisis.
Re: Technology Saves the World
#9This is Andreessen trolling to get traffic on their new publication website... Obviously technology is not saving the world. Sure we made a vaccine for a disease that was bad. But technology is mostly responsible for propagating it in the first place. And climate change, you know. EDIT: also on HN front page, fully autonomous killer drones are being mass-produced.
hmm, I'm not sure I agree with all points made in this post, but surely two things can be true at once? In other words, yes technology introduces problems (possibly the pandemic, as you stated), but might it not also provide the remedy?
If you want to get super pedantic about it.. "Technology" doesn't do anything.
Humans do stuff, using technology. Some of it good, some of it is bad.
So it's really up to us, humans, to save the world. Or destroy it.
Re: Technology Saves the World
#10This is Andreessen trolling to get traffic on their new publication website... Obviously technology is not saving the world. Sure we made a vaccine for a disease that was bad. But technology is mostly responsible for propagating it in the first place. And climate change, you know. EDIT: also on HN front page, fully autonomous killer drones are being mass-produced.
A technology creates externalities. Another technology neutralizes those externalities. Given that we're unlikely (or unwilling) to put technological genies back in the bottle, what else can we hope for?
More responsible development & deployment of technology to avoid externalities in the first place?