A Quote by Brianna Wu
The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems.
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Claims of anti-conservative bias in the tech industry are baseless.
Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the attack on the welfare state. Moreover, all solutions to socially produced problems are now relegated to the mantra of individual solutions.
Browbeating the tech industry for a problem that does not exist also draws attention away from the real problems with Google and other tech companies.
The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge which offers a strong motivation for innovative work, which fires the imagination and spurs men to expend their best efforts, and which acts as a catalyst by including chains of other reactions.
Intel is not the right person to be making clothing or even wristbands. We want to provide the fashion industry with the technical solutions.
I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'
Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions.
The exciting results from the Hubble, other satellites and probes would not have been possible without innovative solutions to many technical problems.
These are serious problems in all of our major cities: homelessness, education, there are are a number of them. And they require hard thinking and innovative solutions. But I think cities are so better off working with the business community towards joint solutions, rather than trying to tax them.
Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.
People have to fix whatever bias they have, and I see this bias consistently, all the time, towards women directors. They're just not being trusted with action.
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.
Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.
It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very good in, is inventing technical solutions to our problems.
We live in a world in which everyone wants solutions. But we can't find solutions if we don't understand the problems, and we can't understand the problems without knowing how we got here.
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