“You Promised Me Mars Colonies,” warns astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the cover of the MIT Technology Review, “Instead, I Got Facebook,” And there, folks, you have the anti-Silicon Valley argument in a nutshell, according to the Review’s editor-in-chief Jason Pontin in his provocative article, “Why We Can’t Solve Big Problems.”
Why? One answer: Because America’s government no longer thinks long-term, no longer invests in Big Problems like landing a man on the moon. So Silicon Valley, and the rest of America’s top innovative technology geniuses, focus on short-term money-makers like Facebook and other Small Problem stuff like Twitter, Instagram, Farmville.
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