"Saturday Night Live" nicely skewered our collective global tech dilemma last weekend with a skit called "Tech Talk," which has been making the rounds ever since.
By Evan Osnos October 18, 2012 "Saturday Night Live" nicely skewered our collective global tech dilemma last weekend with a skit called "Tech Talk," which has been making the rounds ever since.
And the funny thing is that the reclusive 59-year-old filmmaker makes a beguiling sort of sense as he arranges his far-reaching abstractions about humanity's high-tech dilemmas into pleasant conversation, much as films like "Koyaanisqatsi" and "Powaqqatsi" string together pearls of staggering imagery into artful condemnations of Western civilization.
The education pipeline Historically, a big part of the tech hiring dilemma has been a matter of resources: simply put, there weren't enough women and minorities in the job market.
The other side of the tech entrepreneur dilemma is lack of access to tech talent.
With her pedigree, she has a chance to solve tech companies' fashion dilemma: how to create wearable technologies that people actually want to wear.
Recent revelations about the extent of government monitoring of e-mails and phone calls have pushed this issue into the headlines and created a dilemma for tech companies.
The device cures the low-tech collector's dilemma and serves as a prime example of the artist's tendency to either accommodate or comment on the idea that the affluent customer is always right.
There are assorted low-tech solutions to desire's dilemmas too.
Antitrust dilemmas: Even high-tech companies are not supposed to engage in old-fashioned monopolization; and last year a report on the industry by the technology magazine Red Herring declared that "three vendors -- JDS Uniphase, SDL, and E-Tek -- own their market now and for the foreseeable future".
Solving the meat eater's dilemma is a tech problem, and so it makes sense that investors like Obvious Corp., Vinod Khosla, and many others are interested in the space.
