NZ wants a high-tech future. Its proposed physics curriculum may make that harder

Getty Images New Zealand is placing big bets on science and technology, with plans to boost high-tech research funding by $120 million annually by 2030. This investment – targeting ambitious fields such as artificial intelligence, advanced materials, health, energy and space – will help the country’s brightest minds make new discoveries and turn smart ideas into commercial reality. If all of that sits at one end of New Zealand’s innovation pipeline, the other, less glamorous end lies in…