Well Rick, you're not only a sentimentalist, but you've become a patriot. Maybe it seemed like a good time to start. It might be a good time for you to disappear from Casablanca for a while. So, according to U.S. experts, it is time to glamorize geekiness.
High tech needs a Hollywood makeover in order to rekindle interest among kids, the experts say.
They have found that school children are, based on their viewing habits, far more likely to want to be Ally McBeal or George Clooney than a Linux programmer. Shocking news, especially given the fact that to truly emulate Ally McBeal children would have to forgo their diet of hamburgers in favor of a weekly carrot and the odd leaf of lettuce. Such perverse behavior confirms that American youth are all mad TV junkies who have completely lost the plot and forgotten that the best thing in life they could possibly be is a middle manager for a software company with a nice house in Silicon Valley and a personal organizer. In truth there is nothing wrong in wanting to be a lawyer or a doctor. But in the tech industry, short of skills for years and now screaming for talent, there is a desperate need to persuade young people that tech is also rewarding and fun.