Well written article! If the political parties don’t want to take Greenfield’s advice, we’ll see how it all comes out. Our academic, business and political leaders have been striving to take technological tendencies out of us for over 40 years now by taking away our manufacturing base and tools.
When they are ready, we’ll find out if their efforts turned technically inclined people away from technologies for any meaningful duration.
“Dr. Zaius [to humans]: You are a menace. A walking pestilence” (Planet of the Apes, 1968).
The world has been insane ever since the Beit HaMiqdash was destroyed.