Founder & Senior FeIlow, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (@ITIFdc), top-ranked tech policy think tank. Proud Hamiltonian & Schumpeterian
Joined March 2010
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The Pope’s AI encyclical embraces social capitalism when it comes to policy
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3 for 3 on Long Bets. Still waiting on someone to place a bet on AI and joblessness - my view joblessness will not go up much. Anyone? Anyone?
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Time to replace the 17 UN sustainable development goals with 1 goal. open.substack.com/pub/policy…
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Does getting predictions right 2 years before they happen prescience? Probably not. But in "Defending Digital: Tech Fears and Scapegoats, @dmoschella and i did.
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The one thing that ties together all the AI criticism is fear. Americans didn’t used to be fearful. Now most are. Sad
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How Canada is choosing comfortable decline over dynamic growth. itif.org/publications/2026/0…
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5 weak arguments for a US manufacturing strategy and 2 strong ones
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What a bunch of BS that you can be drafted at 18 but some states and cities won’t you rent a hotel room
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My idea for a new law. Make it illegal to fire workers. What could go wrong
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I list more than 50 reason for people to hate and oppose AI (they are all nonsense or overblown). How many do you agree with
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Anyone who says culture doesn’t matter for innovation should pay attention to this video tiktok.com/t/ZTB1cEnvm/
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When we look back in 20 years and see the meeting this week between Xi and Trump as when the power balance changed in favor of China, being ahead and the US being behind?
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Re Trump visit to China my take: policyarena.org/p/trump-shou…
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If we are to not lose to China in the techno-economic war, we need big bold, transformation in the US education and workforce system. ITIF lays out such an agenda .
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Step 1; Pass a third “Morrill Act” to restructure land grant universities to technical skills in alignment with industry needs. More engineering, less English lit
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Provide incentives to reduce focus on academic subjects specialized Professors want to teach (16th century French poetry) and increase focus on practical knowledge (pre-law; stats; writing; etc)
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Step 8: Congress should authorize a “Technical Pell Grant” that covers 100 percent of tuition specifically for applied majors related to national economic power industries, such as advanced manufacturing
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Step 7: employers can no longer trust degrees, even from “highly ranked” colleges. Time to Foster more accountability for results in higher education
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Step 6: significantly expand federal support for gifted student programs
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