I've got a post by that name up at Tech President. Hillary Clinton got me very excited at Yearly Kos with her talk of electronic school records -- like electronic medical records, but less problematic. It's the sort of bold thinking that I think a truly visionary candidate should regularly be engaging in. I'm gonna give away the ending to my post:
With the caveat that I've been thinking through the policy implications of electronic school records for all of about a day and a half, my first read is that it's a clever use of technology that (a) is doable and (b) would actually make the lives of Americans demonstrably better than they were before.That's how it ends. But I hope you'll read the whole thing.
But the point isn't that it's a good policy. It might, in final analysis, be a dumb idea. But the point is that it's bold thinking firmly rooted in an understanding of how technology can be a force for concrete, tangible good. And in my mind, if you're a presidential candidate today, I can't believe that yours will be a Tech Presidency if you don't start to demonstrate soon that you get the power of tech down to your bones.
