Prometheus 6

He said

If I were advising the Republican nominee, this is one of the places I’d ask him to plant his flag. I’d ask him to call for a new human capital revolution, so that the U.S. could recapture the spirit of reforms like the Morrill Act of the 19th century, the high school movement of the early 20th century and the G.I. Bill after World War II.

Doing that would mean taking on the populists of the left and right, the ones who imagine the problem is globalization and unfair trade when in fact the real problem is that the talents of American workers are not keeping up with technological change.

True...very few people can write integrated circuits by hand. Few can write an operating system, much less the microcode they run on top of. I don't even know anyone that writes in assembly anymore...they used to be falling out of the Windows [sic].