OnDC speaker Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy US CTO | Paul Allen (the lesser)

He’s been on the job now for 3 1/2 months. He moved here from San Francisco. I’ll talk about the theory of what we are trying to do in the White House now, why it’s hard, and then take a look at the president’s innovation agenda, and what you can do if you choose.

Our strategy is rooted in Moore’s law. Explosion in computing power, storage, connections. Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double about every 18-24 months. The terabyte of memory you have now would have cost you a couple million dollars in the late 90s and taken up the size of a refrigerator...