Raw notes from technology roundtable with former Presidential candidate Mark Warner in San Francisco on November 17, 2006

When I have a moment, I’ll upload the lo-qual cellphone pictures I snapped and embed them here. Maybe I’ll even get around to cleaning up these raw notes into something coherent or even listing who all was there. For now, all I have time to do is dump the notes I t9’d into my “smartphone” and gmailed to myself:

warner:
tech change cuts through everything

fundamentalist fear of sweeping change… how to prepare people for the inevitable change?

beyond tech industry policy issues

how to help people get their voices heard

most politicians lesson from Dean is fundraising, meetup, and something vague about blogs

danah:
media, always a generation gap

natural to kids, unnatural to parents

adina:
industry issues more about incumbancy vs innovations

warner:
i fought the incumbents on the telecom issues

i think we need a national policy re broadband and need to protect innovator’s ip

??:
a creative commons model plus individual choice

adina?:
principles going back to the founders

anil:
tech industry is politically incompetent

we look to politicians for leadership

tech change not inevitable

warner:
i would argue america got seduced by the tech bubble

but it’s happening now… evangelism is called for

jon:
and education

danah:
we are behind in mobile because of carrier lock down

politics needs to get beyond money

me:
how to get politics beyond money???

warner:
tech = economic promise but the issue got elevated beyond national leadership

mary:
i disagree

craig:
i strongly disagree

mary:
1890s railroads bubble (analogy), then carnegie

was approached by a candidate in 2004 but not interested in campaigns… unless it’s taken straight into governance… but they were scared

craig:
acceleration… viet nam 8 yrs, iraq 3 yrs
in the next 3 wks i’m scared of a gulf of tonkin

i believe just get the bad guys out of the way…

kaliya:
overarching theme is freedom

anil, wagner james:
techies exhibit real unseriousness about terrorism and predators

wj:
partisanship

space race target analogy

cultural not political the 30s

danah:
parks analogy

me:
freedom opportunity national greatness