Are politicians really that different from the average joe? The ones who don't know what a virus is, trust emails from phishers, complain when their computer's really slow but they don't know why, etcetera? Hardly anyone except geeks actually has a grasp of the way technology changes things and how it actually works. Even the generation that's coming up - does being able to use Myspace and iTunes actually qualify kids as "tech-savvy"?

That's half the problem of the proliferation of technology - everyone's using it, but most have a vague idea at best of what it actually is. The job of a politician is not to be an expert on the things they make laws about, it's to represent the views of the people who elected them in government. So we either need a much higher level of general awareness about technology so that people can vote accordingly, or advisers who do know what they're talking about to guide the politicians. I'm not hopeful myself...