Why Is It So Hard to Distinguish Technology Policy from Technology?

Eduardo Porter had an interesting on how smaller cities are less resilient to economic shocks to larger ones. As a result they have been losing jobs and people, while larger cities have been gaining them. While the piece makes many interesting points it is misleading in describing this pattern as a natural outcome from technology:

"As technology continues to make inroads into the economy — transforming industries from energy and retail to health care and transportation — it bodes ill f...