I’m in the midst of a rather busy/chaotic time at the day job, and so I’ve let my reading pile accumulate to frightening proportions.
One article I should have commented on this past week was a New York Times blurb on testimony Bill Gates gave Congress:
More investment in math and science education and a more liberal policy toward skilled foreign workers are crucial if America is to avoid losing its competitive edge, a founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, told Congress on Wednesday.
The shortage of scientists and engineers is so acute, Mr. Gates said, that “we must do both: reform our education system and our immigration policies.”
“If we don’t, American companies simply will not have the talent to innovate and compete,” he said in testimony to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
I agree wholeheartedly with that sentiment.
An environment where our economy is dragging is hardly the time to continue disincenting the development of our own intellectual and future technological skill pool.
