The last three presidents will be remembered for many things, in great part due to the technological advancements made on their watch. “Presidents always invoke advances in technology to further their domestic and foreign policy goals,” said Andrew Meade McGee, a historian at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, adding that Americans “like to tie notions of progress to the position of the president, who both uses new technologies and shapes technology as a policymaker and uses it to promote policy goals.”