[kongreskangaro]

> Watch any senate/congressional/government hearing about technology related subjects from your country's government and you'll see what I mean.

Has anyone done some good study / writing on the subject?

I recall, as a young know-it-all, laughing at that one Congress Critter for his "internet is a series of tubes" comment - but as I've gotten older I really just look at most of these things as plumbing data such that I'm not all that sure he was wrong.

Makes me wonder if your assertion is more based on the superficial media takes of the day, and not reality.

[__s]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes#Partial_text_o...

He wasn't just comparing bandwidth to plumbing

> an Internet [email] was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

[chockchocschoir]

> Makes me wonder if your assertion is more based on the superficial media takes of the day, and not reality.

Again, it's based on watching hearings and other media released by my government when they are talking about technology.

I'm in no way laughing at them for not understanding something. But I am laughing at those who pretend to understand something, or who simply ignore something because they don't understand it. It's not that hard to find experts in certain subjects, and it's really bad that they don't leverage this more for subjects they don't understand.