Tech Policy Debate: Do We Want Enlightened Leadership… Or A Hands Off Policy?
I know that many folks think that “tech policy” is boring — but, for those who care about the tech industry and innovation in general, it remains an important issue. During The Free Summit earlier this week we tried to inject some tech policy issues. This was a key reason for having the event in the first place. Both the Free Summit and the Tech Policy Summit were organized and run by the folks from SageScape, who are quite concerned that the tech world doesn’t care enough about what’s happening in the political realm and how it might impact them. While someone brought up the question, during The Free Summit, of why we should care about the entertainment industry influencing copyright laws, since they were dinosaurs in the process of dying off anyway, we pointed out that the amount of damage they could do while dying was impressive, and shouldn’t be underestimated. The overall Tech Policy Summit was quite interesting (and I’ve done some separate posts on some of the specific speakers)
