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Fellow political journalist, and tech executive from San Francisco here. You’re absolutely right, a lot of the focus in Silicon Valley right now is about automation, machine learning, and big data right now (hell, I’m even working on a cloud computing software as a service automation startup right now). The advancements and progress being made in just the past 12-months alone has blown the last 10-years out of the water, and that is just what we are aware of publicly.