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Tech Clueless Politicians
from the nice-to-know-they're-setting-policy dept
It's becoming clear just how important technology is to all different aspects of society these days, yet too many politicians still appear to be absolutely clueless when it comes to technology. While the following article is a bit misleading in comparing a study about the overall tech savvyness of the population to a few anecdotal stories about technology clueless politicians, it does raise some questions about how tech savvy politicians should be. In one example, a speech writer for Tony Blair is trying to find a quote from the Bible and scrambles looking all over a hotel and even calling a worker to go find a specific version of the Bible, without ever (apparently) thinking of just going to Google.
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Shame, would have shown up in a google search.
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This is a little bit (just a little bit) unfair. Pretty much all forms of technology are banned within the actual chamber of the House of Commons, and whatever you think abvout the principle, that has nothing to do with th Blacberry in particular.
The argument is that while in the debating chamber, MPs shouldn't distract themselves or others from the live action going on around them. There's nothing in that to stop them using a Blackberry - or anything else - the rest of the time.
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