Politico May 30, 2025
Hello, and welcome to this week’s installment of the Future in Five Questions. This week we interviewed Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), one of the Senate’s leading voices on tech policy and a key architect of 2022’s CHIPS and Science Act. Young, who earlier this year published an essay in The National Interest proposing a “Tech Power Playbook for Donald Trump 2.0,” discusses his skepticism about the value of social media, the insight of Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock” and why America risks falling behind China on biotech. An edited and condensed version of the conversation follows:
What’s one underrated big idea?
Using our tech diplomats at the State Department to accrue more geopolitical power as a country.
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