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market rules to ensure that a succession of new communications technologies did not lead to concentrated private power over essential information infrastructure or over the gathering and publication of news . Americans used public policy to structure these markets and platforms in ways that sustained the growth of competitive, financially independe... See more
Center for Journalism & Liberty • Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
Founders Fund recently hosted a panel on defense: a conversation at the intersection of the U.S. government and the technology industry, or D.C. vs. Silicon Valley. Moderated by Dan Primack, and featuring Chris Lynch, Heather Podesta, and Trae Stephens.
Anatomy of Next • Technology and Defense at Founders Fund HQ
We have a existential manufacturing problem in America.
Why aren't there Amazon/Tesla-scale gigafactory warehouses filled with CNC machines? Will we ever be able to make our own products again? How do we accelerate the turnaround of American manufacturing?
I asked this question a few months ... See more
Andrew McCalipx.comDrones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any.
nytimes.com
Skunk Works creator Kelly Johnson was a visionary on at least two fronts—designing airplanes and organizing genius. Johnson seemed to know intuitively what talented people needed to do their best work, how to motivate them, and how to make sure that the desired product was created as quickly and as cheaply as possible. In time, Johnson wrote down t
... See morePatricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Operating with a modest initial budget of $15,000, Senator Truman ingeniously augmented its resources by appealing directly to the American public via CBS Radio, encouraging citizens to report any defense-related waste they observed in their communities. These citizen letters became a routine and valuable starting point for the committee's investig... See more
Google Gemini
There were about 4,000 people at this facility, and we were the first Americans ever to visit. It was obvious to me that what they were building would be entirely useless in modern-day combat, but I didn’t say anything at the time, except to compliment them on their workmanship.
David Packard • The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)
the now mostly forgotten history of how, during previous revolutions in information technology, Americans successfully protected free speech and democracy by using government to carefully manage competition and structure news media markets, including through direct regulation of essential communications platforms.