Let’s talk autonomous cars.

 

Whether you like it or not, within ten years, a large portion of cars on the road will be self-driving. And there’s no reason we should let Detroit and Silicon Valley be the only leaders in this field. They’ll need data centers, development labs, safety courses and all-weather learning facilities. Build them here. As your Congressman I’ll reach out to the leaders in this field (Uber, Apple, Mobile Eye, etc.) and secure job opportunities for the future prosperity of our district.

 

Let’s talk robots.

 

The factory isn’t going anywhere but the factory worker is. And there are a lot of reasons for that. We can’t compete with Asian labor rates, but there is a growing demand across America to “buy American.” Robotics solves that. Manufacturing plants with reprogrammable robotic employees create 24-hour productivity and quick product adjustment protocols. In short, it’s the future of making money. Let’s build those facilities here. Let’s build those robots here. Let’s educate those engineers here. Let’s be real about where our future jobs are going to come from.

 

Let’s talk about coding.

 

Computers aren’t our future. They are our present; they are our world. The world is digital. No one under the age of 30 calls the phone in their pocket a “mobile” phone, or a “smart” phone. It’s just their phone. Our cars are computerized, our phones are computerized, our homes are computerized. And in the future our yards, our clothes, our deliveries… everything will be computerized. We need coders. We need to teach coding to our children and build coding opportunities in our district.

 

The jobs of the future are the work of today.

 

Let’s do something.