Science & Tech Quote by Tim Holden

The sentence wears the suit-and-tie neutrality of late-20th-century tech politics: progress, access, growth, everyone wins. Tim Holden’s intent is not to make a philosophical claim about technology; it’s to establish government as the legitimate referee and benefactor of a fast-moving sector without sounding like it’s picking winners. “Accordingly” signals committee-room logic, the kind that pretends policy is simply the next rational step rather than a choice with tradeoffs and donors attached.

The phrasing “continued development of the IT sector” foregrounds industry health as a public good. That’s a familiar Washington move: treat corporate expansion as synonymous with national competitiveness, then attach social benefits as parallel goals. The subtext is coalition management. By pairing “foster” (a gentle, pro-business verb) with “citizens’ access” and “opportunity for economic advancement,” Holden stitches together Silicon Valley’s appetite for favorable policy and the voter-facing promise of upward mobility. It’s the rhetoric of the digital dividend: let the market innovate, let the state widen the on-ramp.

Contextually, this sits in the era when “the IT sector” became shorthand for the future of work and America’s global edge, and when the digital divide entered mainstream policy language. Notice what’s absent: privacy, surveillance, labor displacement, monopoly power. “Access to technology” frames the problem as distribution, not governance of the technology itself. The government’s job here is to lubricate growth and expand participation, not to interrogate who controls the platforms or who pays the costs. That omission is the tell: optimism as strategy, not innocence.