From teaching kids to code to expanding access the open Internet, the tech industry played a prominent role in President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
One of the key questions Obama centered his speech around: “How do we make technology work for us, and not against us — especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change?”
Tech has indeed worked both for and against Obama throughout the last few years of his administration. The president has frequently butted heads with Silicon Valley over how much access the federal government should have to encrypted private data and the government has endlessly battled the spread of Islamic State (ISIS) propaganda across the web and social media Read more…
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