Trump, Silicon Valley’s tech titans share more goals than you think
When executives from Silicon Valley technology companies, representing more than $2.9 trillion in market value, visited Trump Tower on Wednesday, the room was filled with not a little tension.
Nearly all the executives had supported Hillary Clinton, and a few had condemned Donald Trump. The president-elect, meanwhile, had singled out at least one of the firms for ridicule and questioned some of their most cherished beliefs — on immigration, trade, and multiculturalism, for example.
The meeting appeared to go just fine, however, and I suspect that in the end Trump and the Techies will learn a lot from each other, for the country’s great benefit.
The Silicon Valley executives and Trump are all “builders,” as Peter Thiel, the meeting’s key liaison, noted at the Republican National Convention last summer. If each side looks toward building the future, instead of litigating the past, they can become better than either would be alone.
The tech firms may learn from Trump — or at least appreciate more fully — that there really are many industries and regions of the country that have been left behind as Silicon Valley and Wall Street surge ahead. And further, that millions of Americans who voted for political change are also open to the type of change in which Silicon Valley is the unrivaled expert.
Trump may learn that the technology firms, who at first glance have little to do with the industrial economy, will in fact play a central role in transforming and reviving the physical economy in places like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
For it is information technology that will power the Internet of Things, connected cars, smart infrastructure, additive 3D manufacturing, and revolutions in health care, energy, and education.
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Trump, Silicon Valley’s tech titans share more goals than you think
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Πηγές: American Enterprise Institute, TechPolicyDaily.com
