Imagine how different the world would be if we could not only use smart phone and tablet computers and the like to deliver every kid the education they deserve and if that education was built around this kind of pattern recognition.
These are achievable, they're important, and they have huge ramifications for people, whether they're paying for their kid's college education or their prescription drugs or their energy costs.
Like most parents from his hardscrabble background, he was simply happy that his son was getting a college education, as if a college education, of whatever kind, in whatever major, would magically do the kid some good.