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A screenshot from the Reboot Conference website. It says: "The New Reality is here. It's just not evenly distributed. You can see it everywhere. Across media, politics, education, and global affairs, new technologies and players are laying waste to incumbents and making possible new enterprises and ways of building. Political pressure and popular opinion are moving from stagnation to revolution, from doom loop to boom loop. This isn’t incremental improvement. It's reality transformation. But the Old Reality won't go without a fight. Legacy organizations and personalities will try to write their privileges and cash flows into law faster than New Reality technologies and founders can overtake them. It's a classic strategy, employed by every guild and elite. It will work, until it doesn't. Tech will be at the center of the fight. The printing press didn't have a politics, but printers, readers, and thinkers did. And today, after decades of pretending that Washington didn't exist, Silicon Valley has woken up to politics, recognizes the stakes, and is playing to win. How will new media enterprises reshape political coalitions? Will defense startups unseat bloated legacy contractors? Can we bulldoze the obstacles to a brighter future? To achieve that future, America will need Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley will need its window into Washington. The New Reality is dawning."