{"id":1319,"date":"2016-01-13T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T03:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/13\/obama-touts-technology-as-the-answer-to-americas-ills-in-state-of-the-union\/"},"modified":"2016-01-13T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T03:35:20","slug":"obama-touts-technology-as-the-answer-to-americas-ills-in-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/13\/obama-touts-technology-as-the-answer-to-americas-ills-in-state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama touts technology as the answer to America&#039;s ills in State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ap_1614167344\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzEzLzA3L0FQXzE2MTQxNjczLjRkNmFhLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/ede6b2d0\/d43\/AP_1614167344.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Obama+touts+technology+as+the+answer+to+America%27s+ills+in+State+of+the+Union&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F12%2Fobama-technology-sotu-2016%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F12%2Fobama-technology-sotu-2016%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>From teaching kids to code to expanding access the open Internet, the tech industry played a prominent role in President Barack Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/12\/obama-state-of-the-union-2016\/?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">State of the Union address<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key questions Obama centered his speech around: &#8220;How do we make technology work for us, and not against us\u200a \u2014\u200a especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tech has indeed worked both for and against Obama throughout the last few years of his administration. The president has frequently <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/06\/09\/tech-companies-encryption\/\">butted heads<\/a> with Silicon Valley over how much access the federal government should have to encrypted private data and the government has endlessly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/1\/9\/10741972\/tech-executives-obama-isis-private-meeting\">battled<\/a> the spread of Islamic State (ISIS) propaganda across the web and social media <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/12\/obama-technology-sotu-2016\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/technology\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Technology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/obama\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Obama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/healthcare\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Healthcare<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/politics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Politics<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452655944' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1452655944'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/qVV6aoLPp7U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From teaching kids to code to expanding access the open Internet, the tech industry played a prominent role in President Barack Obama&#8217;s State of the Union address on Tuesday night. 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