Steven Levy writes at Backchannel that “Technology and science is a bigger story than Donald Trump,” arguing that regardless of who’s president, future generations “will primarily regard these times as the era during which tech changed everything.”

Remember, there have been economic crashes and horrible wars throughout history. But people carrying supercomputers in their pockets — supercomputers that change their lives hundreds of times a day — is new and earth shattering… we are doggedly optimistic about the future, and how technology, with all its black mirrors, will make life better.
He ultimately calls the rise of tech “the story of our time” (although in a semi-related development, American researchers are now worrying about federal funding cuts). And Motherboard warns that with Canada’s new push to attract foreign tech workers, “there’s a very real possibility that the U.S. could face a brain drain as some of its top science and tech talent moves to greener pastures.”

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Source: Slashdot – Is Technology A Bigger Story Than Donald Trump?