The IT Inconvenient Truth

Now that its out on DVD, I finally got around to watching "An Inconvenient Truth". Putting all the environment stuff aside, Something else struck me as interesting. Throughout the show/documentary, you see Al Gore constantly cracking away at his laptop, creating charts, formulating ideas in a word processor, and cross referencing facts online. Basic, stuff that the common American can do right?

Then it hits me. When was the last time you actually saw a politician grinding away over a computer (well, besides Mark Foley)? We live in an age where computers and IT are driving the economy and the future, yet we have leaders that make basic faux pas like "The Google", "Internets", and "the internet is like a series of tubes." How are we supposed to strive forward with leadership like this? To take it to the next level, not one member in the supreme court has any Tech legal background, nor IT rights/privacy. Hence explains why companies like RIAA are allowed to run rampant to break the law, while trying to catch lawbreakers.