The article this discussion is about is entirely about politics and economics, as is the resultant discussion. You will note that there is no discussion of "oh, if only there were technology to fix that problem". There is, and it was not employed in this case. Why it wasn't, and the consequences, are what the article is about.
> But I have to agree, that sadly there is a correlation between the low level of discussion and how political a topic is.
Anyone can comment on political articles, whereas it actually takes some interest and experience to discuss the relative merits of Ruby and Python, or Akka and Erlang.
Not, it is not. Here are some articles about technology:
http://www.brython.info/
http://dehora.net/journal/2013/06/01/on-go/
http://ninjasandrobots.com/three-mistakes-i-see-web-designer...
http://moron4hire.tumblr.com/post/51904590190/processing-and...
The article this discussion is about is entirely about politics and economics, as is the resultant discussion. You will note that there is no discussion of "oh, if only there were technology to fix that problem". There is, and it was not employed in this case. Why it wasn't, and the consequences, are what the article is about.
> But I have to agree, that sadly there is a correlation between the low level of discussion and how political a topic is.
Anyone can comment on political articles, whereas it actually takes some interest and experience to discuss the relative merits of Ruby and Python, or Akka and Erlang.