@hakeemstevens84 @scythe
I mean, I still believe there is a need for more "minorities" to be in technology. Emerging tech has so much of a stake in the future that gigantically skewed racial/gender/etc. ratios will definitely present a barrier to an equitable society. Skewed ratios in fields like nursing--while important, no doubt--will probably not matter nearly as much in a future where 80% of our current jobs have been replaced by computers. I think that, for the most part, the intentions are correct--just the ways that people are trying to make it happen are in need of desperate improvement and often doing more harm than good to the reputations of those they claim to help the most.
But what should we be doing? That's a lot harder to answer.
Edit: lol sorry this is moreso in reference to the first few posts in the comment chain than the most recent couple. Just trying to address this one specific case with technology; although it could be applied to a lot of emerging fields. People of particular races/genders (i.e. Caucasians, men) aren't usually pushed into fields because their group is perceived by the public to already saturate the "important" (not actually important, just ones whose actions have the biggest direct repercussions on most of society) ones.