America Doesn't Have Time For More Tech-Challenged Politicians

With technology tightly entwined with business, transportation, and government, lawmakers need to work closely with the tech community.

With technology tightly entwined with business, transportation, and government, lawmakers need to work closely with the tech community.

During my 35 years of covering the technology industry, I have seen firsthand how companies have tried to keep an arm's-length relationship with the government. With some rare exceptions—the Pentagon's cooperation and collaboration with industry brought us the internet—Silicon Valley has generally tried to avoid federal and state bureaucrats. After all, the less the government knew about what tech companies were doing, the fewer legal and legislative issues the industry would have to deal with.

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