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Senator Ted Stevens in 2006: "I just the other day got... an Internet [email] was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [T

Senator Ted Stevens in 2006: "I just the other day got... an Internet [email] was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."

ke88y 3y ago
It might be more informative to look at the current US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation [1]. There are some reasonable people on the committee on both sides of the isle [2]. Noticeably missing are any true subject matter experts -- unlike Finance, Medicine, and especially Law, Scientists and Engineers almost never end up serving is legislatures. Not sure how to fix that. But I'm not sure technical illiteracy is the biggest issue. E.g., the TOP item on the Republican side of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is that Bud Light's sponsorship of a transgender person was illegal advertising to minors. Important Stuff /s I think our problem these days is not just that Senators are technically illiterate but more that they and their core constituents all have terminal brain damage from decades of cable news and politics podcasts. [1] https://www.commerce.senate.gov/ https://www.commerce.senate.gov/ [2] https://www.commerce.senate.gov/members https://www.commerce.senate.gov/members