Will Bush Be a Friend or Foe For Technology?

[DudeAsInCool]

TECHNO FILES

Bush Didn't Invent the Internet, but Is He Good for Tech?

By JAMES FALLOWS

Published: January 23, 2005

George W. Bush probably won't be remembered as "the high-tech president." The strongholds of the biotech and infotech industries, on the East and West Coasts, voted against him. If his State of the Union address next week, his fourth, is like the previous three, it will say next to nothing about the role of science or advanced technology in the nation's economic and social future. The symbol of Al Gore's relationship with gizmos was the early-model BlackBerry he wore on his belt. The symbol of Mr. Bush's was his tumble from a Segway computerized scooter in 2003.

Yet the Bush administration could end up being known for some technology advances that occurred on its watch. I am speaking not only of purely private developments - the renaissance of Internet-based businesses in this age of Google- or of the heavy public spending for military and surveillance systems, which is creating a vast new antiterrorism-industrial complex.

Instead, as in many chapters of American technological history, some of the most significant innovations have been made where public and private efforts touch. In its first term, the Bush team made a few important pro-technology choices. Over the next year it will signal whether it intends to stand by them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/business...ml?pagewanted=2

[Kooperman]

Will Bush be a foe for technology? He's a MoFo to anything that he touches.

[KiwiCoromandel]

this is how bush supports technology.....

[Redneck4sure]

I agree Kiwi.

I also agree with Bush. I never me a weapons system that I didn't like.

[slum_goddess]

He's a MoFo to anything that he touches.

yep but worse, i think, is that he's too fucking stupid and/or not curious to try anything for himself, relying on his goddamn pro-fuckwit advisors. i mean, c'mon! i doubt he's ever been on the internetS.

[Redneck4sure]

i mean, c'mon! i doubt he's ever been on the internetS.

Sure he has. Where do you think he got his copy of the Paris Hilton video? He sure as Hell didn't buy it.

[Wolfie]

If there will any progess it will be in killing technology. Useful things like alternative fuel sources will have to wait till 2008.

[Redneck4sure]

Wolfie, if you look back in time it seems that killing technology has always been ahead of everything else.