Governments are forced to endure the past. It is understandable, 100,000 miners -speaking of the past, not the present- can vote more than 1,000 entrepreneurs trying to launch a company of this century in the field of Internet, nanotechnology, biotechnology and other new sciences. This produces a harmful effect on the economy in general; expired models are defended and those who can/should bring on the future are not promoted.
The difference between a politician and a statesman -according to Churchill- is that a politician thinks about the next elections and a statesman things about the next generations. That is an important difference and it is not right or left, it is pure logic. The more we invest in nonrenewable models, the more we slow the implementation of new business models that could change our future as a country.
You must know how to have patience and you cannot “throw out” the past. You must keep your vision firmly pointed toward the future and not defend the indefensible nor slow the drive of new technologies with outdated methods that only shift the competition to other more permissive and adaptable environments.
Promoting entrepreneurs -whether for the Internet, Nanotechnology or Biotechnology, or Alternative Energy and other new sciences and new materials- is betting on the future of our country. Understanding that there are current powers that must be respected, it is not worth legislating in their favor against the future because that is shooting the future in the foot along with the generation of new positions. Positions that make sense in a culture of knowledge that manages digital resources in a way that is unintelligible for many but that represents the models which must be insisted upon in order to take part in the future and change the economic model we are all talking about but want to achieve without changing anything.
It is not possible. Creation obliges us to crack eggs and try a lot. You have got to lay a bunch and wait to see which will hatch into a Swan…white or black.
Translated by Babelic.com
