Politics should take technology more seriously. Innovation can make impossible problems possible to solve, and policy can make impossible technologies possible to create. The fundamental link between the two is not at the core of the Democratic or the Republican agenda. Instead, we are stuck between a progressive movement that is too afraid of growth and a conservative movement that is allergic to government intervention. In the last seventy years, we have too often followed the same playbook—invent, but don’t implement. We cannot afford to follow this playbook for the next seventy years.
