I worked for a startup designing solar panel meters during the 2016 administration, and know firsthand how damaging it was. The tariffs put in place affected raw materials for the panels, but somehow not the finished products from overseas that we were competing with. The entire R&D branch had to be frozen out until it was over.
I would personally like to believe that tech would remain the somewhat untouched by geopolitics sanctitude as it somewhat usually is. I dont see any of trumps policies around tariffs affecting tech, and unless you work in a sector that will be affected in another way, I think tech will keep running as it always has been, if anything, more unfettered by the law since Lina Khan is surely on the chopping block, so say goodbye to any chance that big business gets regulated in the near future.
I'm sad that it means antitrust is basically dead now and Google probably won't be broken up: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-expected-shift-course-antitrust-stop-google-breakup-2024-11-06/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-expected-shift-cour...</a>