I think most of us agree that good ideas are solving problems. So could it be that cigarettes, Pinterest and Vine solve problems?
Maybe they do. Cigarettes are solving the problem of easy nicotine intake to release stress.
I think (not sure) a lot of successful new-media companies are solving the "low self-esteem" problem a lot of people cope with these days. They act like a drug.
But ofcourse a better way is to solve the source of the problems: remove stress from society, change culture in a way that we can become who we are (whole).
> I think most of us agree that good ideas are solving problems.
I'd agree that some good ideas (i.e. ideas that survive) are solving problems. But "solving problems" is only a (decent) heuristic for good ideas, not something that causes them to be good. Satellites stay in orbit by tricking laws of physics into not crashing them on the ground, and not because they're useful for us. In the same way, ideas survive by tricking social dynamics, not because they're solving some problems.
Maybe they do. Cigarettes are solving the problem of easy nicotine intake to release stress.
I think (not sure) a lot of successful new-media companies are solving the "low self-esteem" problem a lot of people cope with these days. They act like a drug.
But ofcourse a better way is to solve the source of the problems: remove stress from society, change culture in a way that we can become who we are (whole).