US President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber of the US Capitol April 28, 2021. In the speech, he highlighted the need for increased investment in research and design and cast China as a key geopolitical adversary.
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In his address to the joint session of Congress on April 28, President Joe Biden made the case for reinvigorating the government’s role in technological investment, laying out a vision for what you could call “progressive tech optimism”: the idea that government investment in tech is the path forward to solving Democratic priorities like the climate crisis and developing treatments for illnesses like Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and cancer.