A couple of days ago I was dismayed to come across reports about an MP who was suggesting that investment in superfast rural broadband wasn't needed (see here), that the money being spent in his county would be better spent on urban infrastructure. Given that his constituency is mostly urban it is perhaps an understandable, if mistaken point of view.
There are many forms of investment that we make in our tech, fiscal, intellectual and sometimes emotional. We can relatively easily measure our fiscal investment as we generally know what we've spent on a PC or application, but what about the intellectual investment that we have made in our tech?