Our nitwit leaders (& the public?) globally prefer bluster & marketing to science & technology
There’s just so much unwarranted distrust and boredom in science and technology out there.
Yet sci-tech is demonstrably transformative and fascinating.
Not that philosophy, arts or business can’t be fascinating.
But for profoundness and even beauty, it should be hard to match Einstein or the Enigma-code solving Turing or the DNA double helix or a SpaceX dual booster landing.
But most of the public – and certainly our leaders – can do it. Almost anything can beat good science.
These poignant moments in the history of science & tech are highly ho-hum and, at best, simply just technically necessary to most people I’ve found.
The intricacy and excitement of discovery and invention is barely entertained for a moment.
And there are practical ramifications.
In business, the tech guy is just ‘technical’.
Despite vast amounts of creativity and practical relevance oozing out of . . us. We’re just the ‘tech guy’. Couldn’t possibly have insight on how to spec it or use it.
The world is missing out.
I actually propose they’re on some weird mind-altering psychotic.
But, no, somewhere, science classes bored them to tears I think.
So now, they just want another reality TV show, a sports star or listen to a hairdo marketing guy.
I think it’s an indictment on our education system.
Science teaching is not generally very good.
It’s important because so much today requires technical decisions. But the hairdos and wordy mouthpiece types are really bad at science.
I think the way to fix this is incredibly simple.
We should listen to tech people on tech issues.
Even if they’ve got bad hair and um and ah.
After a few goes they might even get better at the communications.
Elon Musk and his EVs are a case in point.
Until this year Tesla never ran an advertisement.
They instead relied on techies to spread the truth of EVs.
It worked.
Many of us listened . . to tech.
Now the challenge is to get though to the rest of society. Being cheaper now helps. But some education might too.