Yet neither science, nor the economy flourished. Some scientists still fail to realise this. That, for me, is an almost absolutely absurd notion. Scientists do not usually invent new technologies. Scientists within a particular country cannot know all technologies, used within that country and it is certainly not possible for scientists themselves to implement these new technologies in Czech industry.
Technology is created by technicians.
Managers and economists decide where to apply it. They only do this if it produces economic effect. The role of a scientist is totally different. Moreover, Mr Culik gives the same importance to the Internet. Mr. Culik is afraid that a new social inequality is arising in the Czech Republic, a class of informed people who have access to the Internet and a class of the uninformed, to whom the access to the Internet is denied.