Haunted country part XNUMX - hi-tech on borrowed time

The education system is dying slowly, but surely. says the Minister of Finance, Benjamin Netanyahu

1.7.2004
By: Avi Blizovsky
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This week, Cisco announced its intention to acquire the start-up company Actona, which has a management headquarters in California and a development center in Haifa. According to the terms of the purchase agreement, Cisco will pay an amount of approximately 82 million dollars in cash for all Actona shares that are not owned by Cisco and will convert the company's options into Cisco's options (more on that on page 20). What is important is that the Israeli economy continues to provide good ideas to promote technology throughout the world.
This week it was announced that the Weizmann Institute is the champion of revenue from patents. The NBT company that develops algae with a high concentration of beta carotene has already generated millions of dollars a year; The Serono-Peron company that developed a system to treat multiple sclerosis whose sales in the first quarter of 2004 reached 260 million dollars. Also Teva's Copaxone, which was born at the Weizmann Institute - revenues reached 207 million dollars per quarter. And we will also mention the NDS satellite communication encryption card that sells 200 million dollars a year.
The question is, are we not living on borrowed time? Is it possible that this is the end of a wave, because the investments in education that made this possible have long since been absorbed into the corrupt education system, where teachers can not know which continent Israel is on and still teach our child and retire comfortably.
The Minister of Finance, Binyamin Netanyahu, was a guest of the Science and Technology Committee, headed by MK Mali Polishok-Bloch, and about 100 members of the C3 CXNUMX Club from the People and Computers group. In a report brought from there, InformationWeek reporter Yossi Al-Toni reported, among other things, Netanyahu's words: the education system is dying a slow, but sure death. There should be achievement in the education system and as part of this change we will close the digital gap. Singapore is a country to learn from. invest in volumes in this area. We will open up the economy, upgrade education, emphasizing achievement. After all this the question is to what extent do you intervene? What to invest money on? About nano technology, stem cells, or medical devices. In a competitive world there is no escaping gambling.
If the situation continues like this, Netanyahu's choice will not be between nanotechnology and stem cells but between healing and telepathy.
Forget bits going through fiber optics, or flashing through the air via WLAN and hotspots. The science and technology that has brought us this far has made these bits so small that some believe that the human body should receive them without any device.
In fact, last week in Tel Aviv there was an evening titled: The Natural Internet Within Us. "Come on a fascinating journey into the depths of the spiritual and mental 'I' that we came to, all the while following innovative and amazing scientific discoveries and glimpse for the first time the natural internet within us. To clarify what the protocols run by the natural internet are, the ad that was posted on bulletin boards and also in not so legal places, among others in Ramat Aviv C, states that it is a combination of 'healing and DNA', telepathy and communication; The power and strength of speech as well as supersensory communication. The lecturer was Dr. Avraham Levy, formerly of the Weizmann Institute.
I am not sure that Dr. Levy's contribution to the GNP of the State of Israel amounts to such sums, if at all he would distribute tea at the Weizmann Institute, but I am sure that there are some fools who pay him thousands of shekels for each treatment so that he can communicate with the dead and perform telepathy to locate missing people and other things which are not only not helpful but also harmful.
And why do we complain about a former scientist when a website of one of the largest newspapers in the country provides us with an interview with Golda Meir in which she refers to a member of the Knesset who was born after Golda Meir passed away. And on the same website we also read that if we have problems with the child, it is a sign that he is carrying problems from the previous incarnation.
This week it was made clear again that the level of education in Israel is extremely poor, in the State Comptroller's report there is talk of the teacher training system running out of hands. The heads of the universities expressed their concern about the huge cuts in the research budgets. Is someone deliberately trying to set us back?
After I criticized the website's previous misdeeds, including a channeled interview with the spirit of Zohar Argov, a man named Eyal Margalit from the Israeli Mysticism Association contacted me and tried to explain that there are also mystics who are not charlatans. Even if there are those who in good faith believe that there is a connection between what they specialize in and reality, that still does not make it reality.
It's a shame that in the futuristic age where the Japanese build robots, and even the Iranians pass us in math, we will return to the Middle Ages. Greater empires have fallen because of much less difficult things. It's a shame that in the 21st century the rationals have to be on the defensive. We need developers to build the next ICQ or the next NDS or the next Copaxone on the Internet. If we all deal with the internal Internet, who will open all these?
It's a shame, because in the previous incarnation, the country was really a pleasant place to live in, and today's achievements belong to those who succeeded despite the hostility of the education system and the spread of superstitions. It's a shame, we could have really been Switzerland if we hadn't allocated such a high percentage of the GNP on this nonsense. Any child who loses curiosity and doesn't get the basic knowledge of math and English because of bad teachers, and more than that, will deteriorate into physical drugs or the loss of rationalization as a result of all kinds of charlatans lurking in every corner, it will be possible to turn off the light in Israel and announce joining the Middle East region, and descend to the level of The worst of our enemy instead of raising the level of our neighbor.