Despite the fact that this article was a joke, it seems to me that this kind of program could give our existing educational system a run for its money. One child at a time, geek-potential will be traded in for stock options, and the US will become a technocracy ruled by company-educated mega-geeks. The most valuable resource will be their young, highly plastic neurons. The innovators will get younger and younger, and eventually the world will be controlled by a tempermental "little brother".
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Despite the fact that this article was a joke, it seems to me that this kind of program could give our existing educational system a run for its money. One child at a time, geek-potential will be traded in for stock options, and the US will become a technocracy ruled by company-educated mega-geeks. The most valuable resource will be their young, highly plastic neurons. The innovators will get younger and younger, and eventually the world will be controlled by a tempermental "little brother".