Mashing up ITConversations and SIConversations
am 23.06.2007 von http://obiterdictum.wordpress.com/
Although my own weekly podcast appears on the ITConversations channel of the Gigavox network, lately I find myself listening more often to our sister channel, Social Innovation Conversations. And I’ve started to wonder: Why are these two different channels, for two different audiences? Increasingly I wish I could mash them together. Dean Kamen’s recent appearance on Tim Zak’s Globeshakers series on SIConversations gives me a sense of what that would be like. Here his pitch:
Given the enormous rate at which technology is moving forward, almost all the ‘Can this be done?’ questions have essentially been answered by ‘Yes.’ The much tougher question right now isn’t ‘What can we do with technology?’ — it’s ‘What should we do with technology?’ That’s a much harder question involving practical issues, moral issues…the haves and the have-nots, in technology, education, and health care, are diverging.
People who can develop new technologies ought to start thinking, more than they have in the last few decades, about where it’s appropriate to deploy the energy and passion to develop the next level of technology. There are just so many video games that we need, and just so many luxury leisure-time products that we need.
If societies start to recognize that we really do get what we celebrate, and we start celebrating the right things, we’ll see a much more effective use of our available technologies and a much more appropriate and focused set of developments of our future technologies. Instead of focusing on what we can do …
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