I'm talking about society, but wealth is created in corporations. Corporations are the engine of wealth creation. If you want to solve the societal problems, you have to look at the engines of wealth creation. You mentioned in your keynote the danger of having generalists moving into the IT role. Yeah, and the reason is again lessons from history.
Competence is very important.
If you want to build a civilisation based on information, then you must have people who really understand the dynamics and the risks. These MBA wonders, who sort of get flushed in and out as sort of custodians, are dangerous. Let me tell you the story about the demise of the Spanish Empire, which used to be the most powerful empire in the world because they had all the gold. The fundamental flaw that the Spanish Empire made was that you could only hold a position as a general or as a captain of a warship if you came from a noble family. The Brits just took any pirate who knew how to run a ship.