What can a technologist do about climate change?
posted Thu 10 Dec 2015 by Michael Galloy under IDLGreat essay about climate change and what you can do about it by Bret Victor:
This is aimed at people in the tech industry, and is more about what you can do with your career than at a hackathon. I’m not going to discuss policy and regulation, although they’re no less important than technological innovation. A good way to think about it, via Saul Griffith, is that it’s the role of technologists to create options for policy-makers.
Also fascinating is the presentation of his argument and the surrounding facts, particularly the interactive “model-driven debate” text in the Media section. He imagines (and has implemented in the article) news articles with input values that the reader can modify to explore different scenarios and output values the reader can click to find an explanation of how they were calculated. Wow!