At this point you could say that the long-term success of a nation is determined by its ability to produce technological literacy (or capture technological literacy produced somewhere else)
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Having technology-literate leaders is a major strategic advantage for nations in the 21st century.
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The thing is, technology is power, but technology isn't a thing that exists as an external resource, like a stack of coal and iron ore. It mostly exists in people and culture. Its concrete artifacts are short-lived and expandable.
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A tech company without its engineers and processes is just a pile of exponentially depreciating software and servers, that will be worth zero within months. It's all in the people and culture
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Recent three presidents of China studied engineering...
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Practically all Party members have at least a bachelors in science.
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I think we're still working on having *literate* leaders, so we have a long, long way to go. It's also difficult for technologically literate leaders to communicate with a technologically illiterate voter base; if they use simple, imprecise language, they get mocked in the media.
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Agreed. Having humanities-literate technologists is equally needed too.
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I personally do not agree with this. I think the best people to talk in a human way about technology are always people from tech background who have an interest in human impact, never the opposite. Humanities trained people are almost always disconnected with tech reality.
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This is exactly why many endorse
@AndrewYang for president. The US got rid of the Office of Technology Assessment in 1995. We need to do better. There are many ideas that are worth discussing, such as UBI, when the economic threat due to automation is increasingly prevalent. - End of conversation
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