Sunday, July 6, 2008
Digital Ignorance
I know I should be blogging about my reading assignments, but I couldn't help commenting on the following. Frank Rich of The New York Times wrote in his Sunday, 7/6 , column: "Mr McCain is a man who aspires to lead the largest economy in the world and yet recently admitted that he doesn't know how to use a computer, the one modern tool shared by everyone from the post-industrial American work force to Middle Eastern terrorists to Pixar animation. Getting shot down over Vietnam may not be a qualification for president in 2008, but surely a rudimentary facilitary with a laptop is." (Emphasis added.) What do you think? Rich calls it "digital ignorance". I have to agree.
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McCain's techno-ignorance frightens me for many reasons.
IMHO, the growth of the web is the modern day equivalent of Gutenberg's invention of movable type. We are living in truly amazing times, times that will merit a point on a timeline in a future middle school history class.
Web2.0 (and more) is changing the way the world works, interacts, does business.... A world leader who is ignorant about this can not effectively lead his/her country nor maintain a competitive presence in this new world.
Other concerns such as cybersafety, freedom of speech, privacy issues, and free access to the web require a leader who is at least minimally tech savvy.
Just my $.02 worth....
--Gail
Wow! That is concerning. I'm really not sure who I am going to vote for, but this will definitely be filed in the "reasons not to vote for McCain" category. His admission makes me wonder how many other public figures are digitally ignorant.
On a side note, I really appreciate how easy it is to access websites on the candidates this year, so you can read detailed info on thier politics.
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