Can Technology Fight Poverty?
The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 16, 2015
After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, computer scientist Kentaro Toyama realized that despite amazing technological change, the key to social progress requires people on the ground, not apps or gadgets. In Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology, Toyama asks why we keep hoping that technology will solve our greatest social ills.
