Here and There

Still haven’t quite finished The World Is Flat, by Thomas Friedman…. But one of Friedman’s most pressing imperatives in the book is that the United States get serious about science.

Friedman calls for more money, more public relations, a sea change in the culture toward one that embraces science, sacrificing a slice of dumbed-down pop culture if necessary.

He likens it to the moon shot of the Cold War, following JFK’s pledge to “send a man to the moon, and return him safely to Earth.”

Friedman’s galactic metaphor seems to have resonated with that fallen star of a galaxy creator, George Lucas.

Lucas is calling for the U.S. government to reinvest itself (seriously this time) in science and research.

Colossally bad cinematographic decisions aside, I applaud Lucas’s effort. Just as long as we’re not talking about the kind of high-tech innovation that blessed the world with Jar Jar Binks.

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