Is technology the key to alleviating world poverty?
Technology is a tool. Whether it can be used to alleviate poverty will be determined by the users, not the tool. While technology refers to the application of knowledge for practical purposes, Green Technology refers to the use of technology in ways that either help or at least do not damage the ecology. This field will eventually bring innovation and changes in daily life of similar magnitude to the “information technology” explosion over the last two decades. To say that there is a possibility of alleviating poverty with ‘new’ technology again begs the question. Poverty will be conquered not by some miraculous new device, but by the application of the devices we already have and the use of new technologies to promote the growth of currently inadequate economies worldwide. Nanotechnology, using microscopic tools to perform almost any type of activity, has its own possibilities. The laws of quantum mechanics often cause dramatic changes in the mechanical, optical, chemical, and electro
