23 Oct 2007
Technology is root of all evil, says IMF

I thought this was more of El Reg poking some fun, and was going to put in in 'Humor', where it belongs. But it's for real. The IMF really is floating proposals for special taxes on engineers, and more or less compulsory arts degrees.

Which in my mind just proves Albert Einstein's dictum that "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits."

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has this month brought out its World Economic Outlook for 2007, and the various heavyweights of financial news have all had their bash at reporting on it. Normally, no vulture would stir on his/her perch over this type of thing - unless, perhaps, Paris Hilton had been implicated in some kind of major economic upthrust - but in this case, the economists make some rather startling pronouncements about technology.

(link) [The Register]

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