Posted on 04/23/2012 3:27:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
I call those degrees “Grievance studies”,
much to the consternation and enragement of my libinlaws.
Average kids - not so much. Oh, they can throw up web sites and sell semi -useless information and/or physical products if they have a natural talent for self-promotion. But that isn't economic growth - it's rats fighting over crumbs.
Not even close. If that's the way it came across, then I need to get more sleep before writing. Rather than thinking of American government as ‘enlightened’, I generally think that elected office attracts marginally qualified people with delusions of grandeur. I don't for a second buy into the ‘enlightened oligarchy’ bs that many on the left - in a very self-serving manner - embrace.
I absolutely agree with you that the answers have to come from private individuals, not from some contrived government policy. What I was trying to say was that unless we stop punishing the successful, and stop the overregulation and taxation that is suppressing entrepreneurial activity in the US, we won't need IT because there will be no industry for IT to support. Paraphrasing what someone else said much more succinctly and better than I did on this thread, we aren't going to build a vibrant economy based on people writing apps for the iPad etc.
“... it fails to recognize that information technology has to have a purpose in order to have sustainable marketplace relevance - beyond entertainment.”
Why? Do you have any examples to support this statement?
Television, movies, and commercial radio are examples of early information technoplogy that are 90-99% entertainment-based. Entertainment is a legitimate marketplace all by itself. Note the tremendous inroads these industries have made in the information tech market over the last 10-years. Like the telephone (another early IT technology), people use them for business, but people also use them for chit chat, personal (non-work-related) business or entertainment. Businesses advertise on facebook. If social media has no purpose, why would businesses do that?
You are correct in one sense; that there may not be a long-term future for current social media technology. Not for the reasons you cite, but because a better social media technology will replace them relatively quickly compared to the past.
I’ve never been impressed by Michael Barone. A private school brat, ‘the Cranbrook School’, and then Harvard. Too elite for my taste. And an Open Borders cheerleader as well.
Well said.
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