Nerds Can Change Our World

Innovation has been around since the beginning of time helping us improve our societies and way of life; yet regulations has caused a standstill of potential advancements for civilization from coming about. Technology is constantly changing and manifesting into bigger, better innovations; moving onwards, never faltering. To try and contain it is to throw society into a stagnant loop.

Today the world has a cure for cancer and shortly after: a cure for autoimmune disorders. Cellectis, a biotechnology company, created white blood cells that were altered by immune engineering. Through a gene-editing technique called TALENs, researchers were able to create white blood cells made to hunt down Leukaemia. Great Ormond Street Hospital in London has already cured a patient diagnosed with Leukaemia but not without fear for regulators and media backlash due to the vial of cells they had in possession was not permitted for usage.

The reality of today is that we have the resources and the intellectual potential to solve a better part of challenges that we-as a nation-face; Hyam Levitsky,

Many times there have been instances where nerds have been overlooked along with their work, now communities are starting to notice them for what they are: geniuses. Take Uber for example, undoubtedly made by “nerds,” the services provide a cheaper, faster and instyle way of traveling; but had to overcome government regulations and protests from taxi companies. By the time Uber came to the attention of the government, Uber had already sank its claws into American culture and to try and terminate its services would cause pandemonium amongst citizens. Unfortunately, as Mr.Stossel points out, other innovators who can not start their projects without government permission are frequently shot down because of what Mr.Stossel calls them, “today's Byzantine rules,” before they could better