The first tech moment of the State of the Union happened before President Obama started speaking

The first tech moment of the State of the Union address came before President Barack Obama had even taken the stage, when the White House released the prepared remarks on blogging platform Medium. The Administration posted the speech directly online and shared links through social media a few minutes before the speech was scheduled -- roughly the same time it shared it with reporters. Leaving the press out of the loop wasn't an accident -- it was a strategy.