What if there were a universal moratorium on the creation and development of any and all new technology?
Surely I can’t be the only - pick one: nutcase, genius, troglodyte, visionary, reactionary, avant guarde-ian (and so on, but you get the general idea) who speculates, from time to time, about what all of us self-defined creative types, or batteners thereon, would do with ourselves, were such a universal moratorium to be not only declared, but actually acted upon. (I was about to write “implemented” but how does one implement inaction, even if there’s a fancy word for it?)
Many of us, including VCs, who make a living (litotes!) from innovation – by others, of course – might bitch and moan at such an outrageous proposition but, to get at least semi-serious, wouldn’t it take approximately forever to cause the widespread diffusion of the technology we already have, without continuously widening the gap between the (technology) haves and have-nots? And would there not be boundless demands for every kind of creativity and innovation to spread the (technology) wealth around, not as an act of altruism, but indeed as a highly self-serving but victimless equivalent of relieving the social and cultural stresses – does one need to add ‘religious’ to the list? – that bedevil our society and limit the ‘Global GNP’, so to speak? And would not success in such a (bizarre?) undertaking produce opportunities for true wealth creation that would
make “VC Homeruns” look like strikeouts?
There, that wasn’t so hard, was it? Be a Nike fan and ‘just do it’!
Techn Tags : technologydiffusion, innovation, vchomeruns
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