Technology - a tool for good or evil | Darlene Damm | TEDxDanubia

There are fundamental changes happening right now - access to new technology and the internet has a huge potential for mankind. If you believe that technology can solve all of our social problems, you are right, but at the same time technology can also greatly harm our society. Is it for good or bad? You decide.

As the Vice Chair of Global Grand Challenges at Singularity University, Darlene Damm works to create a global community with the mindset, skills and network necessary for building an abundant future. She is determined to solve the planet’s most urgent problems through leveraging exponential technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and digital biology. In 2012, she founded DIYROCKETS, the first company to crowdsource the development of space technology and in 2011 she co-founded Matternet, a commercial drone company transporting medical goods in the developing world. Previously, Darlene served with Ashoka, the world's largest association of social entrepreneurs for nearly 9 years.

[manufacturedreality]

Technology is a double edged sword. A hammer can be used to bang a nail into a piece of wood or it can be used to kill someone. It all depends on the person holding the hammer and on his/her intentions.

[soumanaboureima]

Technology may harm, but does presents numerous benefits.
I'm a proponent of technology in education.

[M-if]

Just like guns, they can be used to kill people or they can be used to protect someones family. It depends on who comes in contact with it

[debrahoward]

Thank you, Darlene, for bringing to our attention the pros vs. cons of technologies. Many of us are totally exempt and understanding due to the fact that many were born into a world of the rising of a technological era. Nevertheless, although, on one hand, if technology "could be used responsibly", as opposed to, "irresponsibly, perhaps, it could be a valuable asset in regards to sustainability.
On the other hand, we are carnal minded, unlike birds of prey, human beings, happiness to possess a certain need of wants, rather than the wants for needs.
Therefore, they'd readily become addicted to the "net".
In other words, technology is a modern day drug. People all over the world has become addicted to social media, and not to mention parents are allowing its toddlers to become addicts early on.
The mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Technology should be approached with a HIPPA oath, sworn to be utilized for the greater good, and causing no harm to self or others

[hmg]

10:45 Nah I'm good, humanity should exist naturally.

[QuintessenceLuminescence]

Telepathy exists without machines...it is an ancient and first way of "human" communication. All indigenous populations can attest to this. Modernity has stamped out innate abilities/ gifts and conforms people to focus on what is outside themselves and doubt what is within. Those who do not have the abilities nor understanding simply want to dominate those with innate "supernatural abilities" and continue on with colonialist oppressive / extractive schemes now called "advancement, innovation, the new normal" etc etc. Unfortunately, "modern technologies" are a lazy way of creating what is innately in Nature, and yes what is called human is part of Nature. Destroying Nature is the foundation in many of the technological schemes.

[hmg]

8:36 Drones will 1000% take more lives than they save, a similar story with most technology that is developed.

[AzAlexzZ]

3 more years to go and we are no closer to solving any of the problems that she said we could @0:50

[PressEntertainmentLLC]

America is becoming a country with just a computer

[Amy-ms]

She speaks my point exactly it's about money that's all it's ever about

[bumcheek]

She had a great view of the firmament.
Where she scouted rare minerals for computer corporations .
And I had no soul, so I got sucked in.

[bumcheek]

It started with the clocks and went to the heights of. Ei g u able to program the time on the VCR.

[jayakumarsr]

What you the positive it’s you before and hope or scope?

[switchedchannels]

9 lIkes This is soo dead.
TEDx Talks is dead???

[bbgkev]

she:- tech is neither good nor bad
me:- what's the answer

[katanagrrl]

I’m sorry, I can’t. Her voice is so shrill it’s putting me in a bad mood

[jayakumarsr]

Keep your ideas for well wish otherwise keep it own pocket

[reubenameh]

Good talk, but God who created animals provided them as meat for us.

[bargemouvier]

This is just a philanthropy capitalism video. :-|

[ronaldlogan]

selling Soylent Green. Yep, I will donate my body to McDonalds when I die, take me to that burger joint in the sky. So many wonderful things are possible, not very likely, but possible, while on the other side those things that are very likely, well not so nice after all.