{"id":15305,"date":"2018-04-13T11:57:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/congress-does-not-compute\/"},"modified":"2018-04-13T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:57:59","slug":"congress-does-not-compute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/congress-does-not-compute\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Does Not Compute"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Stacey Vanek Smith<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in Congress this week. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman was watching.<\/p>\n

He heard the senators’ questions and wondered how many of our congressional representatives have any kind of computer background.<\/p>\n

The answer? Not that many. Right around three percent. And, Kellman says, that’s a problem for all of us.<\/p>\n

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Subscribe to our show on<\/em> Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>PocketCasts<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>NPR One<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in Congress this week. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman was watching.<\/p>\n

He heard the senators’ questions and wondered how many of our congressional representatives have any kind of computer background.<\/p>\n

The answer? Not that many. Right around three percent. And, Kellman says, that’s a problem for all of us.<\/p>\n

Music by <\/em>Drop Electric<\/em><\/a>. Find us: <\/em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>\/ <\/em>Facebook<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Subscribe to our show on<\/em> Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>PocketCasts<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>NPR One<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}