Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D – MD) has stressed on the need for business leaders to keep up with technology innovation.
Cummings was speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Economic Recovery Forum in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 31, 2009.
“I tell people all the time, make sure you go and learn more about technology,” Cummings said. “Technology is very important; I’m begging you — get to know technology.”
Talking about how embarrassing not knowing technology can be, Cummings cited a personal experience when he struggled to cope with technology in the early ‘90s, a story that engulfed the packed Banquet Room at Johns Hopkins University with laughter.
“Don’t be like me,” Cummings said. “But I’m serious, you are all laughing—some of you are in that position right now. We can do better than that, and if Barrack Obama, President Obama, has taught us anything, it is that we can be better.”
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