Why Big Tech and the Government Need to Work Together

The arc of innovation has reached an inflection point: technological change now threatens to overwhelm us. Discovery is unstoppable, but it must be shaped for good. We ourselves--not just market forces--must manage it. Ash Carter, former US Secretary of Defense, is the Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and its project on Technology and Public Purpose. He is also an Innovation Fellow at MIT.