What's the point of innovation if you're not building a better society?
It may be that the inherent American modes of self-reliance, personal responsibility and individual liberty create natural frissons with innovators trying to implement the betterment of society via "liberation technologies."
Whereas Asia, with a deeper cultural affinity for familial duty over individual desire, and an inherent necessity to rapidly raise standards for the millions that still live in agrarian lands, would provide more fertile ground for "sharing economies."
In the near term, it may seem like all the excitement is occurring across the Pacific. But if we can recall the original mission of the PC Revolution: to empower and enhance our natural capabilities, that humans with machines are substantially better equipped at survival and the optimal pursuit of life than either alone can ever be. We may ultimately stumble into that New Jerusalem here in the West.
Where "Man is his own star; and the soul that can render an honest and a perfect man, commands all light, all influence, all fate!"
It may be that the inherent American modes of self-reliance, personal responsibility and individual liberty create natural frissons with innovators trying to implement the betterment of society via "liberation technologies."
Whereas Asia, with a deeper cultural affinity for familial duty over individual desire, and an inherent necessity to rapidly raise standards for the millions that still live in agrarian lands, would provide more fertile ground for "sharing economies."
In the near term, it may seem like all the excitement is occurring across the Pacific. But if we can recall the original mission of the PC Revolution: to empower and enhance our natural capabilities, that humans with machines are substantially better equipped at survival and the optimal pursuit of life than either alone can ever be. We may ultimately stumble into that New Jerusalem here in the West.
Where "Man is his own star; and the soul that can render an honest and a perfect man, commands all light, all influence, all fate!"