Sundar Pichai: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Problems’
To put the title into context:<p>&quot;Do you still feel like Silicon Valley has retained that idealism that struck you when you arrived here?&quot;<p>&quot;There’s still that optimism. But the optimism is tempered by a sense of deliberation. Things have changed quite a bit. You know, we deliberate about things a lot more, and we are more thoughtful about what we do. But there’s a deeper thing here, which is: Technology doesn’t solve humanity’s problems. It was always naïve to think so. Technology is an enabler, but humanity has to deal with humanity’s problems. I think we’re both over-reliant on technology as a way to solve things and probably, at this moment, over-indexing on technology as a source of all problems, too.&quot;