At 12:46 PM 30/08/2017, David Lochrin wrote: >I think Governments need a panel of The Wise, well grounded in engineering and >other disciplines and skilled in big-picture thinking. Of course their advice >would never be completely acceptable, and why do we need that when we have the >IPA?
Whoo-hoo! A technocracy. No, not really. But at least we need people making informed decisions instead of being sold a bill of goods so whatever latest tech giant doesn't take over everything. Diversity is actually very useful. As Josh Frydenburg himself said, don't put your eggs all in one basket. Jan I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia jw...@janwhitaker.com Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker Blog: www.janwhitaker.com Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link