Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
This Microsoft-funded study projects that, by 2013, cloud computing will have added $800 billion in net new business revenues for the 52 countries surveyed (over 2009 levels). The growing economic importance of the cloud is likely to increase pressure for government involvement. As President Reagan said: “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Berin Szoka / Berin is the founder and president of TechFreedom, a tech policy think tank based on pragmatic optimism about technology and skepticism about government. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation and Director of PFF's Center for Internet Freedom.
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