&gt; It&#x27;s one aspect of a tech policy problem that has been plaguing us for at least 25 years: technologists and policymakers don&#x27;t understand each other<p>Policy makers do understand very well. This has not been going on for the last 25 years, this has been going on for hundreds of years. That is policy makers blocking new technologies to grant artificial monopolies to incumbents. The UK mercantilism from the 16th century comes to mind with the government trying to block cheaper wool and then new cotton tech to defend traditional wool merchants and justifying this with &quot;a lack of license and legality&quot; issues cheaper rural wood merchants and cotton merchants supposedly had.<p>As the saying goes: &#x27;It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.&#x27;<p>As long as you will have governments with the power to shut down new technologies you will have incumbents willing to bribe those governments into doing so. Apart removing the government from the equation or at least its power, I don&#x27;t think we will ever solve this issue.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_history_of_the_United_Kingdom#The_Age_of_Mercantilism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_history_of_the_United...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mises.org&#x2F;library&#x2F;mercantilism-england" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mises.org&#x2F;library&#x2F;mercantilism-england</a>