A bit like US presidents pumping trillions into firing pieces of junk at the planet Mars, UK politicians talking big on IT and technology in general are obviously trying to reflect back all the associated positive attributes onto themselves. What’s not to like about someone painting pretty pictures of a better tomorrow? A vote winner right there; just wave an iPad around, go on YouTube, get Twitter and Facebook crazy, and promise to shove a big pile of broadband up everyone’s nose.
Yes, we are a bit cynical.
Passing without comment on this blog at the time, was the sad news that Labour MP David Taylor had died last Boxing Day. So why mention it now? Because with many years experience at the sharp end within a sizeable IT department, Mr Taylor was one of the few parliamentarians who understood anything of any substance regarding IT.
Instead, brace yourself. Not only for the inevitable surfeit of horrifically over-simplified and inaccurate IT-related ramblings from poorly briefing politicos, but also for the ensuing responses from equally ill-at-ease ignoramuses who might in fact have good reason to shout-down their opponent’s tech-drenched manifesto pledge but who will – rather unfortunately – do so really badly.
Right now, somewhere, at the end of some speech-writer’s pen are the words: “After all, we are all IT users now…”
Not ALL of us mate…
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