Biden May not Revive Obama's Understanding of Technocracy!

Biden May not Revive Obama's Understanding of Technocracy! Biden May not Revive Obama's Understanding of Technocracy! As a result, we see familiar names in this mix. Joe Biden, who was elected president, may have spent eight years in an administration focused on the tech industry, but it has been quite some time since that period ended with the four-year Trump presidency. The technology sector attracts a lot of attention in 2020. The tale of Russia's intervention in the American elections of 2016 started to open the doors of the problems coming from social media. Subsequent years push ordinary people into the dangerous waters of extreme nationalism and misinformation that either disappoint or radicalize. A group of technology's largest data brokers bought every possible competitor they encountered and evaporated everything else to further consolidate their power. Things have gotten so bad that even Republicans and Democrats are in an unsolved deal; they are in the common denominator of "regulating the technology sector". It seemed like a gross mistake to let the world's information merchants be left alone over the past decade to become ad-fed giants and grow that way. But this is exactly where we are today.   Biden and the Large Technology Sector Biden did not make the attack on technology the cornerstone of his campaign and mostly avoided focusing on technological issues. His attitude towards the tech industry in general is a bit of a mystery, but there are some things we do know. The future president is expected to support the Trump administration's ongoing antitrust case against Google, potentially bringing additional lawsuits against Facebook, Amazon and Apple. However, one of the people Biden received donations at the beginning of the campaign dates back to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, so the Biden team's relationship with Google seems to be different from its relationship with other giants. Biden does not seem to revive Obama's understanding of technocracy! As Biden's candidacy became clear and the following months progressed, it became clear that Mark Zuckerberg's sincerity with the Trump era in the White House was unlikely to continue with the Biden administration. By September, the Biden campaign team had written a stern letter to Mark Zuckerberg. They denounced Facebook as the "foremost propagandist" of election disinformation. The content and frustration of this letter does not seem to have disappeared. Biden's deputy director of communications recently criticized Facebook for "breaking down" the fabric of democracy. It seems Facebook may regret the many decisions it has made in the past four years to protect the Trump administration's well-being.   Interesting ways can be opened for start-ups with the Antitrust law Still, that doesn't mean doom and gloom for technology - big tech isn't everything. There are many potential bright spots from Biden's climate plans (despite no Senate control) that could break the shell of an entirely new industry and fill it with dollars. It intends to overhaul the country's infrastructure with telecommunications, transport and energy-efficient housing. Apart from these, antitrust (monopoly) legislation, which is framed as an existential threat to "technology" when viewed from a broad perspective, in fact, it has been determined that the biggest technology companies have closed many paths to innovation with anti-competitive behavior for years. And the follow-up of this case through the state benefits the start-up scene. Unless Congress, the states or the federal government put together meaningful regulation, any brilliant start-up technology will be shut down on the indirect route to be bought or incorporated by mega-corporations. With the Antitrust law, interesting avenues can be opened for start-ups.   Kamala Harris Vice President Kamala Harris is another wildcard character. Coming from the tech backyard, Harris brings a distinctive Bay Area (San Francisco Bay - Silicon Valley) vibe to the office. The most interesting is Tony West, Harris' brother-in-law. West is Uber's chief legal counsel. He played an important role in promoting California's Proposition 22, which freed flexible economy companies like Lyft and Uber from the obligation to provide full-time employee benefits. Standing with the working class, Harris seems to be on the other side of the problem for now. The extent of tech world relations is not entirely clear, but apparently he has a friendly relationship with Sheryl Sandberg, who was the forerunner of securing a Treasury and Commerce ministry position that Hillary Clinton won 4 years ago. The Biden administration will also have all sorts of quiet ties with power players in the tech world, many of whom served during the Obama years and then made their way into Silicon Valley. Two examples are Lisa Jackson of Apple, from Obama's Environmental Protection Agency, and Jay Carney, Senior Vice President of global corporate affairs at Amazon and a former Obama spokesperson.   Names That Will Make The Transition From The Technology Sector The Biden administration's transition list is filled with a lot of names from the tech industry, but some of them are the leftovers from the possible Obama era rather than being drawn directly to new industry experiences. On the list, Uber's chief security officer, Matt Olsen, was chosen for his previous experience with the Obama administration, rather than for his insights into the car rental industry. The list doesn't include a new name from Facebook or Google, but includes four members from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and one from Eric Schmidt's philanthropic project Schmidt Futures. The list is also somewhat similar to the Obama era, with the inclusion of the first US CTO Aneesh Chopra and Obama's former chief technology officer Nicole Wong, who previously worked on Twitter and Google. The transition period includes names serving at the digital services agency 18F and some from USDS, which includes talent from the tech world to solve public problems. Other names from the tech world include Divya Kumaraiah and Clare Gallagher from Airbnb, Brandon Belford from Lyft, Arthur Plews from Stripe, Dell CTO Ann Dunkin, and many more. This transitional staff will help fill many open spaces in a newly formed government, but it still does not give a clue as to who will be called into the cabinet. Is There Someone from the Technology Sector in the Cabinet? It is not enough to read the formation of the transition team and Biden's previous statements. We have to wait for the answer of this question. Much has been said for those who have been elected for the governing cabinet so far about how they have been selected, but for now we are mostly left with rumors.   What does the Rumor Mill say?              Meg Whitman, former HP and eBay CEO, recently took the helm of the short-form video platform Quibi, which failed to deliver. Its name continues to emerge symbolically for the Department of Commerce, but the Quibi's magnificent gravel does not bode well for its chance of being favored. Eric Schmidt's name was also widely cited for leading the White House tech power, but given the federal antitrust lawsuit against Google and wider legislative power over the big technology goal, that seems to be the wrong choice. Roger Ferguson, a member of the board of directors of Alphabet, who was mentioned for the Treasury Department, recently resigned from his current position at the financial firm where he works, causing further speculation. Seth Harris, who works in Obama's Employment Department, has been on at least one list showing that he can take a cabinet position. Harris, who was involved in the Biden transition, also sparked controversy over the proposal for "a new legal category for employees occupying the gray space between employees and contract workers".   2020 is not a 2008 As of the present, Employment is a hot issue - Bernie Sanders himself potentially plays the same role - if Harris is appointed to lead this department, it will spark a debate among labor activists. On the other side of the coin, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra could be considered for a cabinet-level role in the Department of Justice. Becerra is not from the tech world, but as the California attorney attorney, his department now has its own antitrust case against Google. In a recent interview with Bloomberg about the competition issues under Biden's administration, Becerra denounced the "giants" that inhibit innovation in the tech industry and stated that attorneys of the state are "taking the lead" in putting pressure on the anti-competitive attitudes of the tech giants. Becerra "At the end of the day, we all want competition, right? If you want innovation, you must remember how important competition is." says. When he left the Office of the Attorney General for Congress, he replaced Kamala Harris, who was elected Vice President. He can still follow in his footsteps by filling the vacant seat he will leave in the Senate in January. All in all, we see some familiar names in this mix, but 2020 is not a 2008. Technology companies that emerged as golden boys in the last 10 years are now in a radioactive state. Regulations are looming on the horizon from all directions. But no matter what policy priorities emerge from the Biden administration, Obama's technocratic gilded age is over, and we are here for something new.