Superfreakonomics: Approaches To Problem Solving

Approaches to Problem Solving “The internet is the most complex system that humans have ever invented. And with every internet enabled operation that we’ve seen so far, all of these offensive operations, we see knock on effects. We see unintended consequences”, said Edward Snowden. Internet may seem to make our lives more comfortable in various ways. However, it often brings a lot of drawbacks to our society. For instance, teenagers who are addicted to internet may follow the reprehensible things they see on the internet. Therefore, individuals tend to solve this problem by using the complicated ways, which are usually not work out very well. In general, there are simple solutions that can be used to solve this problem such as educating people how to use the internet rather than preventing them from using it. This solution is simple and tends to overcome the problem better than using the complicated way. …show more content…
However, if they pay more attention to the problem, I believe there is always a simple way to solve the problem, which sometimes could be the best solution to the problem. As Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner state in their book titled Superfreakonomics, “But the best fix, he realized, was also the simplest one” (Levitt and Dubner 148). Nowadays, people tend to use internet and social medias most of the time, either at work or at home. However, spending too much time on social medias can cause problems to the users as well. Accordingly, this leads to the concern of parents on their children who are addicted to social medias. Therefore, those parent tend to do everything to protect their children from using social