What Government Gets Wrong About Technology

Governing: There was a time when American governments were drivers of technological change, sponsoring the space age and making the early investments that led to the creation of the Internet.

Those days are long over. Today, governments largely leave research and development to big companies and startups in Silicon Valley and elsewhere — private firms that aren’t necessarily incentivized to think about how their innovations can lead to ill effects for democracy and communities.

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