[teddyh]

> people who fundamentally don't understand technology. It will probably take a few generations to fix that.

No, it won’t be fixed. You seem to imply that people are actually deciding things based on their understanding of the facts. I don’t think so.

I think that people in these positions don’t care if they understand technology or not. They care about how they will look. If they can get away with pleasing their confederates by pretending they don’t understand technology, they will do so. If they could please them by pretending to understand technology and do the truthful thing, they would do that. They might (or might not) actually understand technology, but this has nothing whatsoever to do with what they will actually do. They will do the most profitable thing they can plausibly get away with. In a few generations, as you say, people might have less room to blatantly pretend they don’t understand a certain level of technology, but I have a feeling that techology itself will have become proportionally more complex, too, so nothing will change in practice.