Just like those financial wizards invested in ever more abstract instruments of collateralized debt instead of real wealth creation, technologists have focused on copies of software and capturing eyeballs. To regrow America we need a new focus on machines which actually DO something, which create tangible value.

The robotics revolution in manufacturing, agriculture, service, sales, health-care, construction, is never a topic of national focus, and we stand to lose out to Japan and Korea once again, unless the CTO steps up as a visionary for robotics and automation, not just free Internet.