Hearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel of 101 executives, innovators, and thinkers weigh in on some of the biggest technological, political, and cultural questions of the moment.
So when we ran an unscientific poll of leaders and thinkers in tech, we had to ask: Which technology do you wish you could un-invent? What innovation do you think should go "back in the box" and be banished forever?
The two winning responses were: selfie sticks and nuclear weapons.
But let's go through some runners-up first.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/what-would-you-un-invent/413818/
Which inventions would Soylentils like to un-invent?
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday November 06 2015, @06:46PM
Without money we don't have division of labor and specialization beyond the limits of simple barter. That means no economics beyond a basic subsistence level. So wipe most of the tech chart since you don't get much beyond thatched houses and perhaps basic blacksmithing.
Money is good. Fractional reserve banking, fiat money, etc. are bad. I'm also starting to think the publicly traded corporation is in need of a rethink from first principles as well.