Austin is the beta test for America's future. Right now. This week, you've got self-driving cars navigating our streets while the state crushes the local hemp shops with 33x fee hikes. You've got drone boats being built for the Navy while apartment fires displace entire families. You've got 4,000 events at SXSW so overwhelming that a local founder had to build an AI tool just to help people figure out what to actually attend.

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