Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
On this episode of “Tech Policy Weekly,” we’re launching a new format called “Tech Book Corner” that will feature occasional conversations with the authors of important new books about technology policy and the other issues that we debate frequently at the Tech Liberation Front blog. On this debut episode of Book Corner, we are joined [...]
Three passages from Obama’s inaugural address stand out as important for the mix of technology policy issues covered here at the TLF. On technology policy (a non-trivial 5.4% of the address by word count): For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, [...]
Is $1,200,000,000,000.00. That’s the expected 2009 Federal budget deficit. Since the current Federal debt is estimated at a “mere” $10.6 trillion, this means that we’re expected to add nearly 9% in a single year to a debt accumulated over 233 years (since 1774). This number also amounts to more than 8% of the U.S. economy. [...]
February 14, 2012
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