[higeyuki]

I feel that as a technologist we need to better think out the long term ramifications of what we create. Be less apt to bring things to the public. Technology is great when used in a manner that helps everyone in society, however it can be Pandora and hard to shove in a box once it is out there. Sometimes things can damage a society with good intentions at heart only to backfire miserably.

Especially considering the loss of the "do no evil" mentality. Everything moved heavily over to IPO's where you have people buying chunks of tech companies who have no clue how any of this works, but they demand a return so we push things out without much thought about if it will have negative consequences. Witnessing the lack of moral ideals and the blatant grab for money entrench the tech community. I saw in the last decade a major rise in "Tech Bros" in the workforce. Honestly, I am looking at going back to school next year for Geography to work on maps. I am a bit burnt out by "tech" after this decade. (That or I am just getting a case of the "old." I still love tech, but don't want to work in the field anymore.)

Einstein on the atomic bomb,

“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)” Albert Einstein