I am honored to announce the creation of the Business of Know-how (OT) at the Federal Trade Commission, a staff that will offer technological expertise throughout agency issues and fortify the agency’s potential to implement the nation’s competitors and consumer defense legislation. We are employing technologists to be a part of the group. Remaining on the reducing edge of emerging know-how has lengthy been a main section of the FTC’s mandate. The emergence of the radio in the 1920s is an specifically vivid case in point. The radio was getting ubiquitous in American residing rooms, generating radically new choices for leisure and facts. At the similar time, this new gadget…