The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
The next great technology revolution might be around the corner, but it won't automatically improve most people's lives. That will depend on politics, which is indeed ugly but also inescapable.
I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an intersection between technology and finance, which is something I find a little closer to home, seeing as I spend so much time covering Wall Street banks.
I think we have to be more forward-looking when considering any legislation dealing with technology.
We don't have a lot of technology people in Congress, so one of the basic things is to help people be educated on how technology works: what's there, where is it headed, what some of the challenges and opportunities are.
There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political.
But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.