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about Tech with Scientific American Senior Features Editor Jen Schwartz.

So Jen what's going on in the world of, for simplicity sake, technology that will possibly be affected by this election?

So technology is such a huge category these days. It really depends how you define it.

But at Siam, we sort of look at it as, you know, there's the very high- whiz bang innovation stuff and you know maybe the

more traditional things we think about when we say technology like machine

learning and advanced therapeutics and things like this.

But right now, so much of what we're dealing with in this country is the application of a lot of technologies or tools if we want to simplify.

And we're sort of dealing with both the ramifications, the major ramifications of how technology has affected our society, the soul of our country, how we have been divided, how we get information, or as one researcher researcher Claire Wardle calls it

information disorder is what we're up against.

This feeling of overwhelm of noise and and just the polarization in this country of how we just glean knowledge

at this point and how trust and information is transmitted.

And so that's such a huge part of what's really at stake.

And then another really big part that I think about

when it comes to the broader world of technology is, you know, a lot of infrastructure

issues in this country when you really look already and in the near future, how we're going to be adapting to the effects of climate change to recovering from the pandemic public health issues you're really looking at all of these infrastructure needs that encompass just well-being

and public health and national security, and there's all these technological elements to that of new ways

of doing things, of new ways of, you know, securing the world, securing our communities.

And technology, you know, there's a lot of interesting sort of new flashy stuff but then there's the question of how

it's going to be implemented and is it going to be accessible to everyone or there's so

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