Why the Tech Industry Shuns America’s Gun Problem
Silicon Valley’s change-the-world-ism doesn’t seem to apply to gun violence
Written by Scott Rosenberg on Backchannel.
“If we can set it up so you can’t unlock your phone unless you’ve got the right fingerprint, why can’t we do the same thing for our guns?”
President Barack Obama’s question, in a January 5 address on gun violence, echoed the myriad “if we can put a man on the moon”-style complaints we’re all familiar with — the ones that have bemoaned our failure to solve various stubborn social problems ever since Neil Armstrong’s foot touched the lunar dust.