Congress used to evaluate emerging technologies. Let’s do it again.

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Congress used to evaluate emerging technologies. Let’s do it again.

At about the time when personal computers charged into cubicle farms, another machine muscled its way into human resources departments and became a staple of routine employment screenings. By the early 1980s, some 2 million Americans annually found themselves strapped to a polygraph—a metal box that, in many people’s minds, detected deception. Most of those tested were not suspected crooks or spooks.  Then the US Office of Technology Assessment,…