The Despair of Poor White Americans
So many people in Silicon Valley are preoccupied with developing the next killer application; meanwhile, there are tens of millions of poor Americans, white and otherwise, whose potential goes to waste due to social, cultural, geographic, educational, technological, economic, and other constraints.  Within their world, they <i>don&#x27;t see</i> opportunity; they see economic and social decay; and they despair.  It&#x27;s a huge waste of human capital.<p>Talk about BIG challenges: how could this be fixed, assuming it can be fixed?