Toyama's warning resounds: Don't believe the hype! Technology is never the main driver of social progress. So, a golden age of innovation in the world's most advanced country did nothing for our most prominent social ill. But what have our gadgets actually accomplished? Over the last four decades, America saw an explosion of new technologies, but in that same period, the rate of poverty stagnated at a stubborn 13 percent, only to rise in the recent recession. Technologists and policy-makers love to boast about modern innovation, and in their excitement, they exuberantly tout technology's boon to society. But after a decade of designing technologies for humanitarian causes, Toyama concluded that no technology, however dazzling, could cause social change on its own.
Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft.
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