So Who Are the Creators?
So, the game plan, according to me, is to create the future. Who is on the team? You might think, based on my last post, that the team is all engineers and scientists. But, that is not how it has worked in the past.
Regardless of the technology — steamboats to automobiles to computers — the players in the innovation game have included many artisans beyond those with formal educations. Players have also included many entrepreneurs, investors and, of course, many “high tech” workers where the definitions of “high” and “tech” were and are completely context dependent.
This immediately begs the question of whether we have a large cadre of such people now. Where are the mechanical (1800s), electrical (1900s), or computer (2000s) artisans for the future? In the past, we out-paced English workers because our workforce was better educated and ready to contribute to the processes of invention and innovation. It does not seem that we are ready to out-pace Chinese workers in the same way.
We need artisans in IT, biotech, and energy. In the past, such folks would have been cultivated in high school classes and labs in computing, biology and chemistry. People who flourished in these labs, but perhaps floundered with theory exams, may have gone to college for a year or two, or skipped college completely, and immersed themselves in creating the future. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Chris Klaus are recent, but by no means unique, examples.
In my case, high school included woodworking, metalworking and foundry. While math and physics led me to an engineering degree, these labs led me to hands-on experience and a feel for whether something could be manufactured and how to make it. My understanding is that those days are gone. Now, it is all about test scores. SATs predominate, and welding skills are irrelevant. Math skills completely trump abilities to use a lathe.
Perhaps abilities to deal with abstractions are all that now matter. The physical world is no longer where things happen. That’s what other people do — in China, India and Singapore. But, then what do we do? We manage things, count things, borrow money and account for returns. This sounds a lot like England when we were soon to displace them in innovation and economic growth. All because we are unable — or perhaps unwilling — to create the artisans who can contribute to the processes of invention and innovation.
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