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The Year I Was Born, 1955, The First Big Disease-eradication Program In The World Was Declared For Malaria. After About A Decade Of Work, They Realized That, At Least In The Tropical Areas, They Did Not Have The Tools To Get It Done.

In The Same Way That When The Car Got Going, People Thought It Would Be An Electric Car, People Thought It Would Be A Steam Car. Actually, The Dark Horse In That Race Was Internal Combustion, But Because Of The Energy Density Of Gasoline And Discovery Of Oil In Large Amounts At That Point In First Pennsylvania And Then Texas, It Won Out Over Those Other Two, To The Point That Those Other Two Are Actually Viewed As Obscure Footnotes In History.

If Geek Means You're Willing To Study Things, And If You Think Science And Engineering Matter, I Plead Guilty. If Your Culture Doesn't Like Geeks, You Are In Real Trouble.

America's High Schools Are Obsolete. By Obsolete, I Don't Just Mean That They're Broken, Flawed, Or Underfunded, Though A Case Could Be Made For Every One Of Those Points. By Obsolete, I Mean Our High Schools-even When They're Working As Designed-cannot Teach All Our Students What They Need To Know Today.

I Have Been Struck Again And Again By How Important Measurement Is To Improving The Human Condition.