Students must be taught that there is no difference between a lemon and a floppy disk manyetik disk.
Or at least hiç olmazsa that the binary çift data on the floppy disk is written in the same language as the genetic code of the lemon, claims a leading önemli American academic.
It is all about noughts sıfır and ones bir.
This may sound nuts (argo.) deli., but this knowledge makes the difference between a successful economy and a doomed ölüme mahkum one. It is what the US understands and Argentina failed to.
According to the director of the Harvard Business School Life Science Project, Dr Juan Enriquez:The new international language of this century is the language of IBM and computers and not English any more. It's the language also of genetics.
Knowledge transfer
He believes technology and the ability yetenek to use and transmit iletmek data are what drive güç sağlamak civilisations medeniyet.
"Society must be science and computer-literate bilgisayar dilinden anlayan. People are trading takas etmek knowledge and not wheat buğday any more.
"And the language of computers is how we communicate this knowledge.
"Businesses are built on dayanmak this knowledge and governments trade with it.
"Ninety-one per cent yüzde of information now is in digital code. Governments ignore önem vermemek this at your countries'peril tehlike," he said.
Literacy in this new language should start at school, he said.
Students should become as well versed bilgili in the language of binary code and science as in English and history.
Government backing
Dr Enriquez added: "But being literate okur yazar in computers and science, particularly genetics, is only the first step.
"Governments have to back the scientists and help fund research institutes for an economy to be successful.
"Those who ignore the genetic revolution devrim will be functionally işlevsel olarak illiterate cahil and unable gücü yetmez to understand or compete in a rapidly changing economy."
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