Technology and the Next President

With only a few hours until Election Day, I was pondering what the impact would be of a McCain presidency or of an Obama presidency as it relates to technology issues. Yes, both have stated their positions on Net Neutrality, but beyond that what policies would be instituted that might address other technology issues.

On other technology issues neither has really offered anything substantive as best I can discern.  Both say that we need to have a National Broadband Policy in place that provides ubiquitous access, but while this certainly sounds good how will this look and how might it benefit each community?   Certainly every urban and rural locality has different challenges.  Some will require infrastructure development while some might require more competition for affordability etc.  We are seeing government control of ISPs such as in Australia where the Australian Communications and Media Authority has been testing and will be implementing mandatory network filtering.  Is this something that either candidate supports and at what level?  Where does each stand on the 700MHz spectrum auction and the availability of sufficient public safety and first responder bandwidth for interoperable communications?   

I am generally a very optimistic person, but I do not see with either candidate that there will be much change in these overarching policies.  I hope that I am wrong and that significant strides can be made, but with all of the other issues that the next president will need to address I once again see technology issues getting some lip service, but not much more.  

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