Hi! So I've been thinking really hard about something in particular. One important key aspect of America's economy that's been just about missing all this time...sure, it's important to debate gun control, the economy, income inequality, foreign policy, education and the likes...but I feel that most politicans are either turning a blind eye towards are are just generally unaware of the biggest thing that has an effect on our economy:
Technology.
Let's face it: technological progression is the biggiest thing right now and I'm kinda surprised that it hasn't come up yet. In an age where have...well, smart-
everything (phones, TVs, watches, etc), there's a lot to be said about how the next President will continue that progress. The Obama administration admittedly is the first administration to actually give a damn (to my knowledge) about technology; they're on pretty friendly terms with Silicon Valley so it's no wonder the administration is taking technology as serious as it is, and that honestly needs to continue lest another Apple vs FBI incident breaks out and the government would have zero idea how to approach the privacy issue which is, quite frankly speaking, a Very Big Deal among a lot of Americans.
How will the new Presidential administration handle the issue of encryption? Would they even understand how it works? For as socially-savvy as the federal government is these days what with us (more or less) making progress in a lot of social issues (we have a long way to go;
women are still paid significantly less than men in programming fields among other areas, so that needs to be looked into), they seem to be really out of touch as far as technological progression is concerned and that is fairly worrying in this day and age where technology is developing so rapidly that it seems that legislation is struggling to really catch up to it.
I won't be massively disappointed if it isn't brought up, because there's a lot of other issues that are at the forefront of American's minds right about now (obvious example being terrorism, focus on the middle class, etc), but we shouldn't really forget the core of what connects each and every single one of us to each other, and the federal government's approach and understanding of it.