A look back at the Office of Technology Assessment, the Congressional think tank that detected lies and tested tech. At about the time when personal computers charged into cubicle farms, another ...
For a time, Congress had exactly that, in the form of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). But lawmakers shuttered it 30 years ago, and we’re still feeling its absence today. “It was an ...
The U.S. Department of Education’s office of educational technology has been eliminated as part of the federal agency’s massive reduction in force, according to sources familiar with the layoffs and ...