 The work that I've done at the Mercatus Center has been devoted to the idea of articulating and defending the permissionless innovation vision. My name is Adam Theer. I'm a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. So when I think about what has made the world a better place in my own lifetime, what specific policy issues have really driven the ball forward, I really think it's come down to the fact that America has embraced the idea of permissionless innovation for new dynamic digital sectors and information economy sectors. This is something that is a real clean break from the past, from the era of heavily regulated communications and media sectors that ended up denying us choices as a people. But now we live in a world where we have far more informational abundance precisely because we allowed for greater experimentation in these sectors, like the internet and the digital economy. So going forward, the work that I've done at the Mercatus Center has been devoted to the idea of articulating and defending the permissionless innovation vision and applying it more broadly to other sectors and technologies that have been lucky enough to allow for that sort of experimentation and ongoing innovation.