Election time is a crazy time here in the U.S. I’m fascinated by what happened when John McCain, the presidential candidate of the Republican Party, chose a woman that no one on the Democratic side clearly anticipated. In campaigns, people can say some rather hurtful things, and given the feelings surrounding Hillary Clinton’s loss, really stupid things. The goal generally appears to be, on both sides, to say whatever it takes to win an election. So too in technology, it is increasingly clear that the battle is more political than anything else.
