The Supreme Court and politicians are out of touch when it comes to technology (Videos)

BusinessInsider has posted an article on how Judges are out of touch on technology.

I have made similar complaints about your average politician. It can come down to simple numbers. Most people in their 50’s and even 60’s are used to using tech but on average I notice that right about 60 is where they tend to drop off on their interest and knowledge of technology. That’s a problem when the Supreme Court’s youngest judge is 54 years old. If they can’t become familiar with technology, even a little, are they informed on other legal matters? What about world policy? Scary if you ask me.

Business Insider notes that one U.S. Supreme Court justice referred to Netflix as “Netflick.” Another seemed not to know that HBO is a cable channel. A third appeared to think most software coding could be tossed off in a mere weekend.

All 3 are very basic things that many know and can easily learn. NetFlix is a household name; do they also wonder where the Blockbuster stores went? HBO has been available since 1972; yeah 1972.

All you really need to do is Google any of these words and you could easily understand the basics of Netflix, HBO and programming simply by reading WikiPedia, for example.

Parker Higgins, a 26-year-old digital rights advocate who works at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, spliced together audio of the Aereo argument for comic effect and posted it on a sound cloud and at YouTube.

About a minute long, it's a compilation of the justices' references to "the cloud," highlighting some misuse of terminology and uncertainty about how the technology works.



The video has less than 4,000 views at the time this posted but if a politician picks his ear and eats it then it’s worth 700 or 800,000 views. Really?