He’s got a valid point here: tech­nol­ogy has made life for many peo­ple amaz­ing, but they still aren’t happy.

How­ever, some of that unhap­pi­ness seems to come from our abil­ity to be more vocal about the way we feel. Fifty years ago, a project like We Feel Fine (an aggre­gate of the phrase “I feel …” from mil­lions of blogs) would be impos­si­ble. Vocal­iz­ing our unhap­pi­ness is the first step in chang­ing it.

We’ve also been increas­ingly exposed to the hor­rors of life for those liv­ing in the poor­est nations. It wasn’t that long ago that we would live our lives with­out any knowl­edge of what was hap­pen­ing in the rest of the world. Our igno­rance was bliss. With the expo­sure we have now, we should be unhappy, we should be dis­con­tent, as long as there are starv­ing chil­dren and pre­ventable dis­eases. I think this move toward full dis­clo­sure is a healthy and pro­duc­tive one. Let’s get all the crap out on the table and start hav­ing a rea­son­able, world­wide dis­cus­sion with the goal of solv­ing our most press­ing prob­lems. Let’s use our tech­nol­ogy to turn our unhap­pi­ness into pos­i­tive action. And let’s start valu­ing the amaz­ing tools we’ve been given.

Via Kevin Kelly