Real issues are not going to be solved by any of those known popular internet applications!
Currently it does not but technology could solve our problems if two factors considered:
- Definition of ‘Problem’
- Justifying practical ‘Application’
The former seems so obvious but that is actually the root cause of why technology is not able to solve our problems. You see how major aspects of technology are focused on ‘things’ that are neither a problem, nor an issue, or even a basic consideration.
Internet does it really justified to solve our problems? The answer is no because first we are misleading ourselves with unreal problems and things that are more wanted than needed, and more a matter of convenience than a matter of reasonable living.
As an example, transportation, social media, advertising… even fast communication are not real issue. Comparing to other side of same stories like fossil fuel, introversion and lack of communication. When you do not have transportation, focusing on Uber and Lyft is more insulting than funny. When people are getting more and more introvert, talking about your virtual friends is ridiculous. When delivery of an important message to appropriate people is being distracted by many political and ethical issues, focusing so much on advertising is like ignoring the entire word of ‘humanity’.
internet does not really justified to solve our problems
Real problems are not part of, or addressed by Google, facebook or instagram. Real issues that all of us facing are not going to be solved by Amazon, because shopping online is not the real deal that we want to focus on right before Christmas eve. Cyber Monday should not be a concern and first thing in the morning when you turn your radio on. Apple latest iPhone is not going to be a tiny positive factor in any aspect of real life. And we are not going to die if Paypal decides to change its privacy policy, or Twitter decides to delete out tweet.
You see that definition does matter because if the problem was really how you could faster load facebook pages, or how to have a video with more viewers on YouTube, then yes, all those internet trends and application would frankly be toward solving our issues. But the real deal is different, and that’s why most of internet applications are going wrong direction.
Real problems are food, drinking water, population, education, diseases…but not how many restaurants have online vitrines, or how fast and convenient you could order pizza online, or millions of recipes in a PDF…the problem is providing enough resources for a billion of people in lack of basic life resources.
Enough food for one in nine people on earth just to make sure that they can function. Fighting against global water and waste crisis. Eliminating the risk of malaria to half of the world’s population. Taking care of millions of people with at least one sort of dangerous addiction. You can name it.
After you believe in real problems of today’s human on the earth, you’ll see how technology is far from helping us to solve those issues. Thousands of scientists all over the world are committed to solve our real issues, but that number is way less than hundreds of millions of people focusing on unreal aspect of life.
Conquering space for search of what we call inevitable for life, H2O, while we do not have the basic water treatment and culture of consuming drinkable water sounds very naive. Every day we make thousands of chemicals and medications for weight loss while a billion of people do not have enough food to function. We develop all sort of online applications but it’s like all of us are blind and deaf, we can’t see, we can’t hear what is going on before our eyes.
Technology is actually so capable of resolving our real issues. Let’s define and review and digest today’s issues and force technology to handle them for us. Not a cybersecurity professional, or a programmer, but as a human, that is my career to help technology solve human real problems with practical cheap solutions.
