Secret’s founder returns with anti-loneliness app Ikaria
Oh good. Another app.<p>When will people learn that more technology is not only not always the answer, but often the problem?<p>The biggest fallacy of the 21st century is the idea that the shortcomings and collateral effects of the advance of technology can be addressed with more technology.<p>I&#x27;m not against technology. I&#x27;m not a neo-Luddite. But at the same time, the conception that all of the problems we&#x27;ve created or exacerbated through technology can be resolved by more of it is painfully naive. It&#x27;s &quot;when all you&#x27;ve got is a hammer...&quot; logic.<p>New technology won&#x27;t replace or repair the decline in social centers. New technology won&#x27;t fix our increasing sense of disconnection with our localities. New technology won&#x27;t help us engage with local politics (in the sense of trying to do good by collective action).<p>Building new apps and new technologies isn&#x27;t a cure-all or necessarily a solution for the problems were facing right now. It&#x27;s time for us to recognize that we (the tech community) don&#x27;t have all of the right answers, and it&#x27;s time for us to reach out and try to learn, and try to participate in fixing the problems we helped create.