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Holy shit. I just made a peer comment to yours talking about how I think Trump's campaign used technology really effectively, but I had no idea about any of thi

• guildwriter 10y ago
  My general impression from reading on the subject is that most of the other political campaigns were not nearly as tech savvy as Trump's was. Generally speaking Clinton seemed to rely mostly on the traditional approach to election strategy that would have guaranteed victory in the 90s and early 2000s. It seems that political operatives in general have been much slower to adapt to the new generation of tools that have been made available to them or just don't understand the implications. This does not come as a huge surprise. Unless you grew up interacting with technology in the same way as the younger generation has, it's harder to digest, envision, and utilize new tech. Even my stepfather who coded with punch cards and builds old motherboards for fun struggles a bit with his smartphone. I think this election has been a good demonstration of how rapidly tech is changing the world and how asymmetric the adaptation has been. The ground is shifting so fast that it's much harder to predict and imagine the myriad of implications and the way they will feedback into systems.