Well, all that high-minded generality - though loaded with completely groundless assertions like "Sophisticated use of technology in education would boost student achievements and reduce the drop out rate" - makes for stirring classroom banter, but fails to address the problems that have prevented access to technology in the US and the world.
Let's see, we have frivolous patent management and enforcement ("one-click purchasing" via a web page is one of the spectacular examples of this insane hubris), network infrastructure is owned by carriers in the US who charge significantly more for the privilege of using it than almost any other industrialized country (even though billions of tax breaks drove its construction), and megalithic corporations exercise anti-competitive tactics (forced obsolescence by abdicating "support" among others) to help extract usurious license fees for software "upgrades" which deliver virtually no value at all to the owners - all of which absolutely crush innovation, exact the equivalent of a "technology tax" on the public, and is massively geared almost exclusively toward stockholder enrichment and, therefore, intrinsically opposed to your altruistic aspirations.
Much has been written about these issues so I won't even try to encapsulate in a 250-word comment.
In short, you ignore reality with your toast to technology.
Or are you a paid shill for the entrenched industries' interests?
About President Obama
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
No comments:
Post a Comment