What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science (arstechnica.com)

Republican nominee Donald Trump has won the US Presidential election to become the country's 45th president. Now that he is going to run the government, it's a good time to look back on the kind of policies and changes he is likely to bring in the United States. From an article on ArsTechnica:Trump's presidency could bring big changes to regulation of Internet service providers -- but most of them are difficult to predict because Trump rarely discussed telecom policy during his campaign. The Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules could be overturned or weakened, however, if Trump still feels the same way he did in 2014. At the time, he tweeted, "Obama's attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media. [...] With Trump's win, it's still not clear what a Trump administration would do on the issues of cybersecurity and encryption. As Ars reported last month, Trump and his campaign team have been vague on many such details. During the presidential debates, he brushed off the intelligence community's consensus that the attacks against the Democratic National Committee were perpetrated or silently condoned by the Russian government. But Trump did call for a boycott of Apple -- a boycott of which he didn't even abide by -- during Cupertino's fight with federal prosecutors about whether Apple should be forced to help the authorities unlock a killer's encrypted iPhone. [...] Trump's presidency, by some accounts, is likely to be a disaster for science. Most analyses of his proposed budgets indicate they will cause deficits to explode, and a relatively compliant Congress could mean at least some of these cuts will get enacted. That will force the government to figure out how to cut, or at least limit, spending. Will science funding be preserved during that process? Trump's given no indication that it would. Instead, many of his answers about specific areas of science focus on the hard choices that need to be made in light of budget constraints. With the exception of NASA, Trump hasn't identified any areas of science that he feels are worth supporting. More generally, Trump has indicated little respect for the findings of science.The Silicon Valley top heads were largely upset with the outcome of the Presidential Election, to say the least.

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We won't have time for science.

[PvtVoid]

Four years from now, we're all going to be living in the rubble and cooking squirrels over oil barrels.

Re:Science, Tech?

[ooloorie]

Trump stated that he wanted Apple to make it's products here in the USA. That might be possible with a system of tariffs.

It might also be possible with less regulation, lower labor costs, and lower corporate taxes. That's what Trump has been saying he is going to try to do.

Given the lower costs abroad it doesn't seem possible.

The costs abroad are only lower because we have artificially inflated US costs.

The only way to rekindle those kinds of jobs is through the development of new products. Which means science. And we are not going to see much of that.

Actual science isn't about product development.

Re:Broke the glass ceiling

[DogDude]

(largely) her ethics.

So people voted for the 5 times draft dodging, 6 times bankrupt, 3 times married, walking, talking human piece of offal? I think your analysis is off.