In another APRU presentation, presidents noted the increasing integration of the cyber and physical worlds.  Using artificial intelligence to innovate for the future sounds nice, but if not communicated to policymakers, it will not work as anticipated.  Why not? Governments can shut down data flows.  They can do so and they will do so. Government can do so by a variety of regulations that will make it difficult, complicated, expensive or even impossible to move information.  Government will do so in many markets because many officials do not understand the needs of academics or companies. They do not understand the issues because the stakeholders in the system do not see that policy matters. Until and unless these exchanges take place better, we will not get the policies that make sense for everyone.  Policy frameworks are not just the province of someone else—created by governments and driven by ideas drafted from somewhere else.  Policy is supposed to be created for the benefit of stakeholders.  But it requires that stakeholders actually participate in crafting policy.