{"id":186261,"date":"2026-02-11T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/how-a-pioneering-state-could-lead-us-to-transformative-tech\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:10:09","slug":"how-a-pioneering-state-could-lead-us-to-transformative-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/how-a-pioneering-state-could-lead-us-to-transformative-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Pioneering State Could Lead Us to Transformative Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/management-and-administration\/how-a-pioneering-state-could-lead-us-to-transformative-tech\">How a Pioneering State Could Lead Us to Transformative Tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/management-and-administration\/how-a-pioneering-state-could-lead-us-to-transformative-tech\">https:\/\/www.governing.com\/management-and-administration\/how-a-pioneering-state-could-lead-us-to-transformative-tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-11 00:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.governing.com\">www.governing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The article highlights the story of Robert Allison, the first American to buy a car in 1898, and Alexander Winton, who despite skepticism, helped revolutionize American transportation.<\/li>\n<li>It emphasizes the importance of bold gambles on new technologies like AI and blockchain and how they could transform society.<\/li>\n<li>A pioneering state could initiate the adoption of such technologies through four key steps: establishing an Office of Technology Adoption to educate the public, creating a regulatory sandbox to allow innovation, conducting public pilots to test utility, and scaling proven technologies through a Technology Diffusion Corps.<\/li>\n<li>The article contrasts skepticism and resistance to bold steps in adopting new technologies with the need for optimism and forward-thinking governance.<\/li>\n<li>It advocates for a balance between innovation and public protection, suggesting structured, transparent, and publicly vetted adoption processes to encourage the judicious use of new technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a Pioneering State Could Lead Us to Transformative Tech https:\/\/www.governing.com\/management-and-administration\/how-a-pioneering-state-could-lead-us-to-transformative-tech Publish Date: 2026-02-11 00:01:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/dde5a6d\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/840x408+0+30\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F76%2F43%2Ff69489a04f7bb4d686fa97eee5ed%2Ffrazier-ai-blockchain-canal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186263,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186261\/revisions\/186263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}