Why aren't SW developers working on more important problems?
Today the most popular industries for "people who work with code" are IT services, finance, retail, automotive, and gaming.
I am wondering why aren't majority of developers work on higher impact problems that could allow leaps in humankind's welfare. Why aren't developers making more conscious effort on solving:
- environmental pollution (recycling is terribly inefficient today)
- education (time spent in classroom does not reflect useful information we teach our kids)
- clean energy (why not put so many more resources into solar, hydrogen, safe nuclear?)
- sharing our services and resources with our local communities. (social media is a thing, you can follow an IG celeb on the other side of the world but we have no habbit of sharing some of the meal we cook extra with our neighbors or less fortunate)
- remove incompetency in governmental agencies. (why not focus more on how a country operates by removing power from individuals and having technology be the final verdict on any decision on anything going forward?)
- healthcare (why not focus on embedded devices that can people use for self-diagnosing regularly without having to visit hospitals)
I am wondering why aren't majority of developers work on higher impact problems that could allow leaps in humankind's welfare. Why aren't developers making more conscious effort on solving:
- environmental pollution (recycling is terribly inefficient today) - education (time spent in classroom does not reflect useful information we teach our kids) - clean energy (why not put so many more resources into solar, hydrogen, safe nuclear?) - sharing our services and resources with our local communities. (social media is a thing, you can follow an IG celeb on the other side of the world but we have no habbit of sharing some of the meal we cook extra with our neighbors or less fortunate) - remove incompetency in governmental agencies. (why not focus more on how a country operates by removing power from individuals and having technology be the final verdict on any decision on anything going forward?) - healthcare (why not focus on embedded devices that can people use for self-diagnosing regularly without having to visit hospitals)