“Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we’ll build an environment that’s sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it.”
- Dean Kamen

An interviewer asked Dean Kamen:
“What do you think is the most important science and technology issue to be addressed by the next president?”

Is it energy? Genomics? Is it bird flu? Is it the polar caps—are they really melting? Is it terrorism? You pick the crisis du jour: The answer to all these issues is going to be an educated, competent global society. This country ought to lead the world, for lots of reasons. And we ought to help the rest of the world get educated, because if they are educated, their impact on the environment is actually way less. If they are educated, they’ll have better ideas than killing each other or killing you and me.

- Dean Kamen @ Popular Mechanics: Link.

Via Boing Boing.

Dean Kamen @ Wikipedia.