6 A Technology Capital A Gadget Guy New technologies and futuristic trends have intrigued me throughout my life. My youngest brother Matthew recalls that the first digital calculator, video camera, and Sony Walkman he ever saw or heard about were mine. In the eyes of a brother twenty-one years younger, this was a cool thing. I was technology centric—a “gadget guy.”
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By the time I ran for governor, the gadgets, inventions, and advancements of modern life were exponentially more stunning, and the world-transforming era of the internet was upon us. Happenstance of time and place put me in a leadership role at this precise moment of promise and epic change. Technology was an underlying theme throughout my service as governor, and I made it a focus of policy and action within Utah itself. I am
