Stephen Bush in the FT arguing for increased technical literacy:
Even in the UK, a country that is fairly maths-resistant, there is a general belief that everyone ought to leave school able to do basic arithmetic. But we think nothing of the fact that the average politician is simply not equipped to act either as a commissioner of technological services or as a regulator. Nor do we seem especially exercised by the fact that the average voter leaves school without the ability or the knowhow to really understand debates about the basic fundamentals of computer code.
I think that people often assume a learned helplessness or a prideful ignorance when it comes to code and technology. We are missing opportunities because of this.