Technology and its minions will set you free...not!
An incredibly brief thread on Scripting News about the lack of diversity at yet another summit on shaping the high-tech, highly connected future. When challenged on the virtual lack of anyone other than white guys in the on-going planning process, we are assured that everyone has good motives and are well-intentioned. That may well be, but some recent articles in the N.Y. Times tell us that it is still not that simple.
Congressional Black Caucus Rejects Lott's Apology, David Stout.
With Video Games, Researchers Link Guns to Stereotypes, Erica Goode
Lott Apologizes Again on Words About '48 Race, Carl Hulse
Often, the development of new ideas and new ways of doing things requires having new people in the room to think them up. That is the point of diversity; that is its strength.
An incredibly brief thread on Scripting News about the lack of diversity at yet another summit on shaping the high-tech, highly connected future. When challenged on the virtual lack of anyone other than white guys in the on-going planning process, we are assured that everyone has good motives and are well-intentioned. That may well be, but some recent articles in the N.Y. Times tell us that it is still not that simple.
Congressional Black Caucus Rejects Lott's Apology, David Stout.
With Video Games, Researchers Link Guns to Stereotypes, Erica Goode
Lott Apologizes Again on Words About '48 Race, Carl Hulse
Often, the development of new ideas and new ways of doing things requires having new people in the room to think them up. That is the point of diversity; that is its strength.
