MIT on the East Coast, and Stanford on the West Coast have lively initiatives for Social Improvement. This article is from MIT, and is an excellent example of its thinking.
But it is missing a candid analysis of the world as it is now. "What?" You may be saying, "Have you paid any attention to what he is saying?" Yes, I have, and what he says is excellent - but what he doesn't say, and cannot say - is how bad we have become. Yes, boys and girls - how bad we have become! And I include myself in this.
He almost says it - he speaks about destruction, but avoids speaking about self-destruction. Which, in my opinion, is what we are doing - destroying everything, including ourselves! And we are not aware of this.
This last phrase is important - we are not aware of this - or much of anything else. And we consider this our highest virtue!
Our latest technology is Software - and our advances there are enormous. Including Google's Angular and Firebase platforms - that are simply amazing!
I can say this, and realize, that only a tiny percentage of the Public (less than one percent) understands what I am saying. They don't know, and they don't want to know - how these technical advances could help us, in so many ways.
Why? Because they do not want to be made better - they want to be made worse!
"What," you will say "This cannot possibly be true!" But it is true - it is the simple truth.
Empires rise, and empires fall - and today's empire is global. We know it is falling - but we cannot possibly know, how it will recover. Perhaps thousands of years from now.
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