Technological Innovations and Common Pool Resources

In the country of the United States we are using many technological innovations. Today, we are not running into problems with things like energy because we are always finding ways to create fuels for the machines were creating and the the resources it needs, but the problem is the waste from these resources such as the emission of fossil fuels causing global warming and other environmental problems. While this continues, humans are at danger and it can only be getting worse. It seems that technical solutions only create more problems with the standpoint that we are at. The proper way of looking at certain situations is not through technical solutions, but to rather analyze where the problem starts and work with it from there. It would not be beneficial to try to solve the problems without analyzing them. The situation has to be observed and studied and see where the problem starts and then to work with the conflict. In a free social networking site such as facebook, it seems to be a website where we can just share our information freely until we may need to pay for it a few years.

In topics like Common Pool Resources, we are going to do what is best for us. One example we used was the prisoner diagram. The zero-sum game means someone is always going to lose. As rational actors we are often playing this game. After talking about this topic, one can think of many situations that he/she has been in where they face a situation like this. But, this is a problem and is there any way out of it? You can try to increase information to try and promote change. Some people form institutions in order to solve a collective problem through a collective action. This is always most often a possibility to help out.

Now there are many issues that come up where privacy is no longer around. After searching through blogs and analyzing other's opinions on technological innovations I was not very surprised about what I dug up. I found an article that discussed how easy it is for people to snoop through private information on the computer and anything such as images, words, etc. Today, as technology grows, we often can run into privacy problems as shown in this article on technological innovations.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/