Cross-Pollination and Leaders.

I was reading about the Cross-pollination between science and society ( it happens way more often than you think) and i find this reasoning true and logical :’ America has profited immensely from a generation of scientists and engineers who, instead of becoming lawyers or investment bankers, responded to a challenging vision posed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. […} that generation, and the one that followed, was the same generation of technologists who invented the personal computer. Bill Gates , co-founder of Microsoft, was thirteen years old when the United States landed an astronaut on the Moon; Steve Jobs , co-founder of Apple, was fourteen. The PC did not arise from the mind of a banker or artist or professional athlete. It was invented and developed by a technically trained workforce, who had responded to the dream unfurled before them and were thrilled to become scientists and engineers.
Yes, the worlds needs bankers and artists and even professional athletes. They, among countless others, create the breadth of society and culture.
But if you want tomorrow to come, if you want to spawn entire economic sectors that didn’t exist yesterday , those are not the people you turn to. It is technologists who create that kind of future. And it is visionary steps into space that create that kind of technologists’.
Moral: look for stimulated, visionaries, “mavericks” kind of people if you want a leader that bring you to a new future. You cannot control them, but you can always walk side by side with them. They can inspire others.
Thank you Neil DeGrasse Tyson; reading your books is a truly remarkable experience