HAMPTON, Va. -- President Barack Obama, addressing graduates at historically black Hampton University on Sunday, said that it is the responsibility of all Americans to offer every child the type of education that will make them competitive in an economy in which just a high school diploma is no longer enough.
Moreover, Obama said, the era of iPads and Xboxes had turned information into a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy.
"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank that high on the truth meter," he told the students. "And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation. So all of this is not only putting pressure on you; it's putting new pressure on our country and on our democracy."
link: Obama: iPad, Xbox Turn Information Into A 'Distraction'
I missed this somehow. And already I forgot how I found it, probably because the internet has turned my once-crunchy brain to Pablum.
But really. Isn't this the guy who famously wouldn't go to Washington without his Blackberry? And now he can't figure out how to work an iPod? And by the way, do we really want a guy who can't work an iPod anywhere near the Gulf of Mexico?
(And what's even worse than Obama's yammering here is that in the poll at HuffPo (on the page linked above) 56.5% (as of my reading) agreed with him.
And they say Steve Jobs is the one with the reality distortion field.)
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