Dean's Speech at Nationals

[byrne159]

As much as I love FIRST, I found that Dean Kamen's speech during the closing ceremonies at nationals was less than good. My complaints are not so surface-level as length or monotony, but rather the content of his words. I found it extremely insensitive because it seemed to me that he displayed a lack of respect for all people who are not engineers in his message about humanitarianism and technology. He trivialized the loss of approximately 1.9 million jobs due to "outsourcing" (since I don't want anyone to think I'm making this up, http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ing-usat_x.htm) and he took a nationalistic stance on technology in the United States, which didn't strike me as very gracious or professional towards our international teams. So, I was wondering what anyone else got out of the speech, assuming that you didn't sleep through it.