Technology Philanthropist

I call myself a Technology Philanthropist. But what does that really mean?

To me, a technology philanthropist is someone who believes technology should be developed and applied for the benefit of all humanity. It is a mindset rooted in optimism and a belief that innovation, when guided by compassion and wisdom, can uplift lives and expand opportunity.

Throughout history, technology has consistently moved us forward. It has lifted us from darkness, extended our lifespans, reduced suffering, and unlocked new levels of human potential. Today, we are experiencing an unprecedented expansion in the collective knowledge of our species, and that should be something we celebrate together.

At the same time, we face a new challenge. As technology grows exponentially, it is beginning to exceed our biological limitations. While we are each wonderfully creative, intuitive, and intelligent, we are also finite beings. Machines are now beginning to assist and even surpass us in many domains, and with this shift comes a quiet but profound transfer of decision-making authority.

We are entering a world where algorithms and intelligent systems will make more and more choices on our behalf. This transformation is already underway and is perhaps the greatest shift in power we have ever seen. Governments, corporations, and institutions are investing heavily in collecting, analyzing, and leveraging data, not just to serve, but also to capitalize.

So where is the counterbalance?

Where is the collective voice advocating that technology be used first and foremost for human well-being? Where is the movement focused not on profit, but on people and purpose?

That is the mission of Technology Philanthropy. I believe we need a new kind of advocacy, one that puts humanity at the center of every equation. Technology should serve liberty, health, and human dignity. It should never be used in ways that undermine these values.

I’ve committed myself fully to this mission. I’m building a long-term plan, one year at a time, to help bring this vision into reality.

Would you like to be a part of it?

11 thoughts on “Technology Philanthropist”

    1. I believe this topic is very important, especially looking forward into the future as technology plays a larger role in our lives. This blog is a way to organize my thoughts on technology and philanthropy and hopefully will provide some interesting ideas to other people which they can use to increase their quality of life and that of others.

  2. Good post! I read your blog often and you always post excellent content. I posted this article on Facebook and my followers like it. Thanks for writing this!

  4. Many people are able to take advantage of others through software because most people don’t know how software works or how to use computers together in new ways without expert help. Most people don’t know how software works because it is short-term (but not long-term) more efficient to complicate things beyond even experts ability to understand most of it. There are very simple things most people could learn to do in computers together that would allow them to break their dependency on those who take advantage. These things include to store bit-strings in p2p clouds many times per second like programmers use variables, to tell each other about this data they’ve broadcast and others get and use it automatically through their code, and to use public-keys to name each other without authority, and to train neuralnets and reinforcement learning AIs on combinations of these bit-strings, to form a web of data instead of a web of people trying to take advantage of each other through DRM on the addresses. To those who DRM the addresses, my response is I’m not going to use addresses, I’ll secure hash data and name it that way, so it doesn’t matter where it came from, anyone can name it by that hash in their own bit-strings. This probably sounds really boring to most people, so to explain why its not, I’m building some simple games that can expand open-endedly like a multiplayer computer. Keeping it simple enough most people will understand how it works is the challenge. I can build any huge complex thing I want, but few can build something simple and advanced. Those few should teach others how to do simple and advanced together. Complexity is too often a weapon against people understanding how to end their dependence on those who take advantage.

    1. Complexity is too often a weapon against people understanding how to end their dependence on those who take advantage. – Ben that is a very powerful insight, I couldn’t agree more, excellent quotable. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. As we have talked about, your concern about what we do with our amazing technology tools is absolutely appropriate and crucial. That technology needs to be in the hands of a species with a basic ethical philosophy that is well-defined, is associated with a strong ethical sense (motivation to do what one believes is the right thing to do), and promotes not only the survival of the species but also the good life for everyone, now and in the future. Currently that is not the state of affairs. We are talking, hi-tech, and quite angry chimps, our most feared predator. But we are also loving, empathic, cooperative, and benevolent. We are both. But being both is not good enough. So we need to use our technology to make ourselves better ethically. And this is a bootstrap operation. No one will make us do it. We will simply have to come together and agree to do it. And this means acknowledging that we all have work to do, work to do on ourselves as well as in behalf of each other. We must be willing to grow, and that means to change. A term for that effort is “Humanianity,” as you know.

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