In Slate’s series Fixing It, a 10 part series outlining a series of changes needed to be enacted by the next president, they recently covered the reformation of our tech policy. While these are all good suggestions, I’d like to add a few to the list. An important part of fixing our tech policy is not just a list of important goals to be accomplished, but it’s feasibility in actually getting these goals passed in congress. As such, a key way to get this done would be the restoration of the Office of Technology Appropriation. This office, killed at the hands of the Republican restoration to congress in 1995, was designed to give members of Congress a source for objective analysis and explanation of science/technology issues. Given the lack of congressional members with actual degrees in the sciences, this office may hold the key to giving increased attention and awareness to the lack of tech funding as it is. While the article also brings up good points on the need for prizes (ala the X-Prize), basic funding to already existing agencies needs to be renewed as well. After all, Science ≡ Progress.