New Hampshire Robots In Dubai.



To The Editor:
   Governor Chris Sununu is headed over to Dubai for a robotics conference. My question is what will this do for New Hampshire?
  
   There can be little doubt that in the evolving sphere of robotics technology there are some big things happening like life changing things. Many New Hampshire schools are now building robotics into their STEM curriculums and there an increasing defense industrial complex in the southern tier of this state that has ties to developing robotic technology.
  
   But Chris Sununu is the Governor of New Hampshire and he isn’t the Commissioner of Education or Business and Economic Affairs and he is leaving the Granite State at a time when there are pressing leadership needs here, whether this is the unfinished state budget or continuing issues in health and human services, transportation infrastructure and more recently, the liquor commission.

  
   In the past I’ve spoken to Governor Sununu when he was an Executive Councilor. His background is one of engineering and mathematics and he seems to me to have little interest in imagination, ideas or even analytical thinking instead he’s all about logic and computational direction to the point where it was very difficult for me to get a word in once he starts talking.
  
   It should come as no surprise that Governor Sununu is interested in robots. These shiny mechanical creatures don’t start a political debate or argue with their masters and they can be controlled, at least for now. But it still remains what this far away conference in the Middle East will do for New Hampshire? I’m sure the governor has already calculated this as he jets off for Dubai.
   

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