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Politicians are happily claiming affiliation with technology as a way to say both that they’re hip and they can fundraise

That’s an acceptance that’s going to echo through Congress very quickly and cross party lines. Politicians who see their business—politics—shifting its focus to smaller, state-level organizations (and the Internet-driven fundraising machines that can work alongside them) are going to have experience that lets them judge tech’s thinking about its business differently.

They may not learn the difference between Perl or C++, but they’re going to see the importance of networks, not centralization, the power of collaboration and cooperation.

Tech talk about the semantic Web, the network being the computer, the need for open-source sharing and the viability of file sharing will become tangible as elected officials and their staffers use digital products and innovations in ways that are not now familiar. That’s going to lead, indirectly, to a comfort with policies tech folks would like to see implemented. So the battle over immigration might start to incorporate a discussion about science and math training.

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