There are plenty of podcasts that will tell you how the latest tech gadget or “innovation” will affect the tech landscape tomorrow, but there aren’t that many concerned with the potential impact of that tech in a decade—much less a century. In a culture obsessed with now, how can we make choices with a view for tomorrow, next year, and beyond? 25–35-minute episodes released the first and third Wednesdays of the month.
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0.07: Schrödinger's Law
Show Notes
In which we talk about the Affordable Care Act and how implementation—both at a technological level and at a general political level—public perception, and policy combine in strange and surprising ways.
Chapters- Intro and Overview (2:45)
- Technology Failure (2:45–8:36): on how the initial failure of HealthCare.gov shaped public perception of the ACA.
- Implementation Matters (8:36–15:58): on how policy in general is always dependent on how it is put in place.
- Conclusion (17:28)
- “Comatose”, by Hayden Calnin. Used by permission.
- “Winning Slowly Theme”, by Chris Krycho. Used by dint of being written for the show.
- HealthCare.gov
- One of many articles talking about the dysfunction that led to the technological failure: Healthcare.gov and Obama’s Micromanagement Problem