In all of these cases one of the main problems seems to be that non-technical people have too much decision making power in technical areas. (I'm not going to address this huge problem here.)
I've lost count of the number of times I've been in a meeting listening to someone talk about something like the "Linear Feedback Shift Register" mentioned in the article.
Unfortunately, technology seems like magic (or snake oil) to people who don't know anything about it...
In all of these cases one of the main problems seems to be that non-technical people have too much decision making power in technical areas. (I'm not going to address this huge problem here.)
I've lost count of the number of times I've been in a meeting listening to someone talk about something like the "Linear Feedback Shift Register" mentioned in the article.
Unfortunately, technology seems like magic (or snake oil) to people who don't know anything about it...