I think Mr. Terrific would make the most significant impact in the education field. He'd create a highly adaptive instructor AI and holographic teachers/professors which would cut down on a lot of the overhead in education (it would put a lot of teachers out of work in the short term, however), allowing funding to be spent more diversely and raising the overall intelligence of the general populace, making higher education more readily available and bringing down, if not outright eliminating, tuition costs, and which would bring about an intellectual renaissance and a better trained, highly educated populace that would be able to contribute in the new tech/idea based economy, which would also lead to all of the other fields being addressed as well by the now highly knowledgable populace.
Originally posted by MF DELPH
I think Mr. Terrific would make the most significant impact in the education field. He'd create a highly adaptive instructor AI and holographic teachers/professors which would cut down on a lot of the overhead in education (it would put a lot of teachers out of work in the short term, however), allowing funding to be spent more diversely and raising the overall intelligence of the general populace, making higher education more readily available and bringing down, if not outright eliminating, tuition costs, and which would bring about an intellectual renaissance and a better trained, highly educated populace that would be able to contribute in the new tech/idea based economy, which would also lead to all of the other fields being addressed as well by the now highly knowledgable populace.
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Glad someone brought up Terrific. I agree that if he did that he'd significantly forward the education field. I'm not sure we would enter an intellectual renaissance but it's a good goal to shoot for.
Good god, are you all closet technocrats and state-ists?
Never occur to anyone that we would be terribly boring a species without said problems? They're an expression of our latent chaotic nature... Orderliness is a dead-end.
I'd really be quite weary of a world where "geniuses" sought to apply themselves to "solving" all of our "problems"...
Well, maybe a Renaissance is a stretch, but making all levels of education affordable across the board and eliminating a large expense (instructor's salaries, administrative costs, etc) from local and national economies would free up a lot of tied up funding, which would allow a lot of other issues to be addressed immediately, and in the long term make the populace better equipped for a variety of occupations as well as creating new fields. More engineers, more scientists, more architects, more programmers, etc.
Originally posted by janus77
Good god, are you all closet technocrats and state-ists?Never occur to anyone that we would be terribly boring a species without said problems? They're an expression of our latent chaotic nature... Orderliness is a dead-end.
I'd really be quite weary of a world where "geniuses" sought to apply themselves to "solving" all of our "problems"...
I'll take a boring world where everyone's needs are met and there's more reason for peace over all the excitement we have nowadays.
Originally posted by MF DELPH
I think Mr. Terrific would make the most significant impact in the education field. He'd create a highly adaptive instructor AI and holographic teachers/professors which would cut down on a lot of the overhead in education (it would put a lot of teachers out of work in the short term, however), allowing funding to be spent more diversely and raising the overall intelligence of the general populace, making higher education more readily available and bringing down, if not outright eliminating, tuition costs, and which would bring about an intellectual renaissance and a better trained, highly educated populace that would be able to contribute in the new tech/idea based economy, which would also lead to all of the other fields being addressed as well by the now highly knowledgable populace.
I was just thinking - he could do the same thing by creating a smartphone app. Distribution is already there - no need for it to be holographic if it can do the same function.
Originally posted by MF DELPH
Yeah.Because that's the only possible outcome of people using their minds to solve problems.
Yeah, I have no idea what that guys problem is....
As for the OP. I'm with the majority. If lex was in the real world and actually wanted to solve the worlds problems he'd be able to. The main thing that's ever stopped his plans were a god-like being from another planet, and we have none here. He is willing to manipulate his way into power to change whatever he wants. (assuming again he actually does have good intentions)
Stark would be good as well but I don't think he has as much political experience. Luthor was president. Stark would make a successful company and invent a whole bunch of good junk but politics would be his failing. His plan to stop warfare from his companies weapons was just make an even bigger weapon and control it himself. Nuclear arms race all over that tactic and while I do trust tony more than any world government (even with the alcoholism), it's not the most analytical of reactions.
I don't know too much about Mr. Terrific to really comment.
Bruce would be ok but besides crime, all he seems to do with everything else is throw money at it. I feel lex could do better than that. And bruce seems to guard his tech too much. doesn't trust anyone with anything so his tech advances may not be as well distributed.. may be a good idea in the real world actually...actually i'll use that as a plus for him vs stark. 😛
As said, Reed would get too distracted in his crazy quantum, cosmic, nano research stuff.
Pym would be a more focused reed but he seems to have a lot of life problems that has made him less productive in the past.