{"id":8596,"date":"2016-06-13T05:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T05:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limelight.dev\/?p=103"},"modified":"2016-06-13T05:30:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T05:30:56","slug":"obama-todo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/design\/obama-todo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Silicon Valley: President Obama Has a To-Do List for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span class=\"lede\" tabindex=\"-1\">ASK NOT WHAT\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>the government can do for Silicon Valley; ask what Silicon Valley can do for the government. That\u2019s President Obama\u2019s tack, anyway. He presented WIRED with six challenges he feels the tech industry needs to address, just a few earthshaking problems the country could use some help with, that\u2019s all. We reached out to six of the biggest names in the WIRED world, and we gave each of them a challenge from the president\u2019s list. Then we asked: To get this done, what\u2019s the industry\u2019s best play?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"no-marg gray-5 tungsten pad-b-sm\"><strong>1. TACKLE INEQUALITY.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5 class=\"no-marg pad-b-25\">Tim O\u2019Reilly, investor and founder of O\u2019Reilly Media<\/h5>\n<p>Silicon Valley runs on stories. So does the economy in general. We create what we believe in. If we believe we can use technology to identify and solve big problems, then that\u2019s what we\u2019ll do. Unfortunately, right now too many people think of technology as something that eliminates jobs through efficiency, capturing the money that used to go to workers.<\/p>\n<p>The tech industry can actually be a force that decreases <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inequality<\/a>, but not enough people in Silicon Valley see that. Paul Graham, one of the founders of Y Combinator, once worried that by funding startup companies he was inevitably widening the gap between rich and poor, because he was helping a few founders get very wealthy. That\u2019s wrong. If a company creates more value than it captures, it decreases inequality, no matter how rich the founders become.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/10\/obama-six-tech-challenges\/\">Read the\u00a0rest of the To-do List here<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASK NOT WHAT\u00a0 the government can do for Silicon Valley; ask what Silicon Valley can do for the government. That\u2019s President Obama\u2019s tack, anyway. He presented WIRED with six challenges he feels the tech industry needs to address, just a few earthshaking problems the country could use some help with, that\u2019s all. We reached out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56,60],"tags":[62,63],"class_list":["post-8596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-information-tech","tag-obama","tag-todo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limelightpeople.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}