Politico September 11, 2024
A presidential election is a major decision about the future, but the future hardly came up during last night’s showdown between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
There were brief nods to the technologies that will ostensibly power tomorrow’s economy and ensure the United States’ continuing global tech dominance. Harris said her China policy will focus on winning “the competition for the 21st century” by “investing in American-based technology, so that we win the race on AI, on quantum computing.” Trump dismissed the current administration’s investments in microchip manufacturing, lamenting that “we hardly make chips anymore” despite the billions invested by the CHIPS and Science Act.
But… that was it. In fact, the most substantial intrusion of...