President Barack Obama appeared at South by Southwest Interactive Friday with hopes of inspiring young technologist to start coding for a better America.
"We are at a moment in history where technology, globalization, our economy is changing so fast, and this gathering at SXSW brings together people who are on the cutting edge of those changes," Obama said. "The reason why I'm here, really, is to recruit all of you. It's to say to you as I'm about to leave office, 'How can we start talking about new platforms, new ideas, new approaches across skill sets to solve some of the big problems that we're facing today?'"
The president later added, "If we use technology, data, social media in order to join forces around problems, then there is no problem we face in this country that is not soluble.
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