迈向一个精通数字技术的国家
迈向一个精通数字技术的国家
“给我一个足够长的杠杆，和一个支点，我就能撬动地球”
– 阿基米德
为了减少失业，我们需要杠杆作用。
不是像华尔街那样通过债务，而是像硅谷那样，使用工具。
杠杆作用放大你的行动并提高你的生产力。你可以通过以下方式获得杠杆作用：
- 劳动力（人为你工作）
- 资本（钱为你工作）
- 工具（机器为你工作）
我们正试图帮助劳动力。我们没有太多资本。我们必须给人民提供工具。
所有伟大的现代生产力工具——印刷机、工厂、电影制片厂——都需要资本和协调才能使用。计算机可能是自石器时代以来第一个个人可以用来获得巨大杠杆作用的工具，无需任何其他人的许可。
现代计算机可以在每个领域提供帮助——即使你在工作中不使用计算机，你很快也会在口袋里装着一部50美元的智能手机。你在网上银行、网上学习、网上交流。计算机，以及现在的智能手机，使每个人都更加高效。
这就是为什么硅谷人才不足，而全国其他地方却没有足够的工作机会。
现在计算机更简单了。更普遍。更便宜。更容易接触。
我们可以通过计算机教人们如何使用计算机，使用像ShowMe、CodeAcademy、Bloc等工具。
让我们创建世界上第一个完全精通数字技术的社会。不是一个程序员的国家（也许有一天会是），而是一个对人类有史以来最强大的工具感到舒适的国家。
让我们快速完成——三个月内从头到尾培训他们。而且便宜——免费。
我们可以在斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院、伯克利大学、哈佛大学等创建这个项目。我们可以教授基本技能——使用在线应用程序，如Google Apps、搜索、DropBox、电子邮件、网上银行、旅行、订购用品等。一些基本的创作——创建你自己的网站。研究问题。解决问题。学会学习。
谷歌、亚马逊和苹果将借给我们平板电脑。公司将付钱给我们让人们学习使用他们的应用程序。一个应用市场，公司付钱给社会来教育社会。
苹果、Square、DropBox、Twitter创造了漂亮的软件界面。iPad和Android使硬件变得易于接触。今天，不仅建立公司很便宜。重建一个人也很便宜。
让我们创建世界上第一个精通数字技术的社会。世界上最理想的劳动力。如果这还不能创造就业，那就没有什么能创造了。
Towards a Literate Nation
“Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth”
– Archimedes
To reduce unemployment, we need to lever up.
Not like Wall Street did, through debt, but like Silicon Valley does, with tools.
Leverage magnifies your actions and increases your productivity. You can get leverage through:
- labor (people work for you)
- capital (money works for you)
- tools (machines work for you)
We’re trying to help labor. We don’t have much capital. We must give tools to the people.
All of the great modern tools for productivity – the printing press, the factory, the movie studio – require capital and coordination to use. The computer is the first tool since maybe the stone axe, that an individual can use to gain massive leverage, without permission from anyone else.
The modern computer can help in every endeavor – even if you don’t use a computer at work, you’ll soon carry a $50 smartphone in your pocket. You’re banking online, learning online, communicating online. The computer, and now the smartphone, make everyone more productive.
This is why Silicon Valley doesn’t have enough people, when the rest of the nation doesn’t have enough jobs.
Now computers are simpler. More ubiquitous. Cheaper. More accessible.
And we can teach people how to use computers, through computers, using tools like ShowMe, CodeAcademy, Bloc, and so on.
Let’s create the world’s first, completely Digitally Literate Society. Not a nation of programmers (maybe someday) but a nation of people who are comfortable with the most powerful tool ever invented by mankind.
Let’s do it quickly – train them in three months from start to finish. And cheaply – for free.
We can create the program at Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, etc. We can teach basic proficiency – use online applications like Google Apps, Search, DropBox, Email, Online Banking, Travel, Ordering supplies, etc. Some basic creation – create your own web-site. Research questions. Solve problems. Learn to learn.
Google, Amazon, and Apple will loan us the tablets. Companies will pay us to have people learn to use their apps. An app marketplace where companies pay society to educate society.
Apple, Square, DropBox, Twitter have created beautiful software interfaces. iPad and Android have made the hardware accessible. Today, it is not just cheap to build a company. It is cheap to re-build a person.
Let’s create the world’s first digitally literate society. The world’s most desirable workforce. If that won’t generate employment, nothing will.