Technology's Better Life

Reminding me of the early hopes of Vannevar Bush (and especially his essay As We May Think) are a couple of projects I came across while researching for this blog: geekcorps and MIT's AgeLab. They are both Humanitarian in effort as they are seeking to better the worlds of a specific group of people.

geekcorps is a nonprofit organization that ships technically (i.e. computer geeks) skilled people off to developing areas of the world to work with budding businesses.

MIT's AgeLab seeks to better the world of the aging population through technology. There motto is Ideas + Technology for Quality Living.

geekcorps seems to be expressing an idea of technology or new media as savior and MIT's AgeLab is further blurring the line between humans and technology.