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August 24, 2005
[off topic] Negative long term effects of government spending priorities
(Posted by francois to: random brainsqualls )There is a great article on the BBC about our government's anti-science policies and the possible future implications of those policies - quoting Vint Cerf as saying "that's a recipe for irrelevance and decline."
This goes hand in hand with our failing educational policies - leading to the number of people that graduate with engineering and science degrees in this country to be totally out of whack compared to upcoming Asian countries like China and India (here from Business Week). Inventor Dean Kamen has been trying to do something about this for years through his non-profit First!
In the mean time, and according to the NYT (needs subscription), we will be spending over 1 trillion dollars on our wars (already we have spent $258B)...that is more than $11K per family!
Does this make sense? Don't we have certain obligations to the next generations?
And then I have my son who just showed me this great Green Day Video (if you need another format go to their site and click on video)
...what should I tell him?
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It's easy to point the blame at Government, but they do have a responsiblity to ensure that technology is managed. The other problem is that students don't find science as attractive as subjects which will potentially be more financially rewarding or glamorous.
Rather than trying to convince governments to change we all need to work together at the grass roots level. There are plenty of opportunities.
Posted by: RedKite at August 24, 2005 7:14 PM
