Government should encourage public policies that foster innovation and at ITIF we try to make suggestions for how policymakers can do this better. Some of the proposals from ITIF try to make substantial structural change—like creating a National Innovation Foundation—but others are more prosaic. One example of the latter is my recommendation that it is long past time for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to revisit its in-flight restrictions on the use of e-book readers and other portable...