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I can't wait for the day when our legislative bodies actually understand how the technology around them works. Maybe then we can avoid idiotic discussions like

• placebo 11y ago
  I doubt that will ever happen. What I'm curious about though is the extent stupidity or greed of a few can kill freedom and creativity of the many without the masses revolting. I guess it depends on a large number of factors, including existing culture, and how slowly the water is heated before the frog realises it is boiling...
• weddpros 11y ago
  "when our legislative bodies actually understand how the technology around them"... They probably thing they do, hence the problem
• Analemma_ 11y ago
  It won't happen until "those people who actually understand how the technology around them works" decide to become legislators. Are you quitting your engineering job to run for office?
  • TeMPOraL 11y ago
    It's irrelevant. It would happen even if everyone involved had a CS PhD. Note that there's a reason this idea is being discussed, and it's not that the Internet is broken and needs to be fixed. The Internet works fine. But there are groups of people who want to make money off it, and they have enough resources to (attempt to) buy legislation that would favor their preferred business model.
• tomjen3 11y ago
  I am terrified of that day. The only reason we progress in IT is that no person in authority understands tech, so they can't make stupid rules that stops us. Imagine if they had been competent enough to make the rule that all source code had to be stored in a repository, and that each file had to be locked to prevent concurrent modification - we would never have progressed from RCS.