There's never been a BRT mission statement. The blog just "grew" as a random walk in a digital age, musings about the impact of tech and science on reality without a care in the world but this viewpoint is changing, changing because the writers of BRT sense it's time for a call to action, a need to question the status quo and an imperative to take control of our destiny instead of leaving it to the dictates of uninformed political leaders and unenlightened financial and business types who endlessly take with little regard for the public good.In the weeks and months ahead, upcoming posts will focus on developing possible solutions to societal problems gleaned, in part, from the hundreds of articles posted on the BRT site as we feel our generalistic approach to understanding how civilization works from the tech perspective has merit and should be leveraged in proposing different approaches to conditions that should not continue if we are to be responsible stewards to planet earth.
We want input from you, the reader, to tell us what you think we should do as we move deeper into the 21st century.
Best,
Robert E.
2 comments:
Bob -
I'll just reiterate my email signature line: "There are no technical solutions to social problems."
I agree but my post does not center on just tech as the only approach to solving any given problem nor have BRT posts in general have ever stated this. Most of the writings center on inquiries on why things are the way they are or findings about things that have social impact. I view myself as a Dave Bowman, a generalist who knows a little about a lot. I also am a strong believer in knowing the fundamentals about any given discipline, something that refers to tech (acceleration of same), because it has become an intrinsic fundamental that has to be factored in when discussing any social problem that needs to be fixed because society, in large part, is dependent on tech in order to function..
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