Science & Tech Quote by Dennis Moore

“Equipped” is doing the heavy lifting here: it turns childhood into workforce prep and education into an economic instrument. Dennis Moore’s line doesn’t plead for curiosity or citizenship; it makes a pragmatic pitch that’s hard to argue with in public. Who wants to be the politician against “kids” or against “the new economy”? The phrasing wraps a contested agenda (technology-driven schooling, job-market alignment, public investment choices) in a tidy moral imperative.

The intent is reassurance. Moore is speaking in the register of responsible governance: we’re modernizing, we’re staying competitive, we’re not letting the next generation fall behind. “They need to learn to use that technology” frames tech literacy as basic, like reading, rather than as a set of tools with embedded values and winners and losers. It quietly shifts accountability away from industry’s churn and toward schools: if the economy destabilizes, maybe the problem is that kids weren’t trained properly.

The subtext is also economic nationalism, even if the language stays domestic. “Keep the new economy going” suggests momentum that must be maintained, as if technological change is a force of nature rather than a political and corporate project. It’s future-proofing rhetoric from the late-20th/early-21st century playbook: globalization, the internet, and the knowledge economy all demand an upgraded human capital pipeline.

What makes the line effective is its compression. It collapses complicated questions (what tech, taught by whom, for whose benefit, at what social cost) into a simple chain: kids -> skills -> growth. That’s not neutral. It’s a governing philosophy disguised as common sense.