WHO Radio Show Notes - 2016
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2016
January 2, 2016
(WG: Predicting technology in 2016)
January 3, 2016
(BGS: Giving to charity...politics, markets, and compromise...checking in on the Future Scale)
January 9, 2016
(WG: Virtual reality; saving old VHS tapes; countering terrorism with technology)
January 10, 2016
(BGS: The stock market isn't the economy; Saudi Arabia and Justin Bieber; who's just not looking for work)
January 16, 2016
(WG: No more "brain games")
January 17, 2016
(BGS: The next President should be a governor)
January 23, 2016
(WG: ##)
January 24, 2016
(BGS: Having a plan at the caucuses)
January 30, 2016
(WG: The world is growing ever more complex and sophisticated -- it's no time for dummies in the Oval Office)
January 31, 2016
(BGS: The problem with "free college")
February 6, 2016
(WG: Sky-high oil taxes aren't a serious proposal)
February 7, 2016
(BGS: The Great Asset Sale continues)
February 13, 2016
(WG: Should the government have special privileges to break encryption?)
February 14, 2016
(BGS: three immutable laws of politics and property, the trouble with a $10-per-barrel oil tax)
February 20, 2016
(WG: Apple should resist encryption hacking, even if they're not angels)
February 21, 2016
(BGS: Why doesn't DC use game theory?)
February 27, 2016
(WG: Cyberspace is a wonderful adjunct to democracy, but a terrible substitute for it)
February 28, 2016
(BGS: If you think people are cynical now, wait until a Trump administration fails to deliver)
March 2, 2016
(BGS: Donald Trump's most rational choice is to quit while he's ahead)
March 5, 2016
(WG: A year in space, less free shipping from Amazon, Netflix and binge-watching)
March 6, 2016
(BGS: Is this how we should pick a President?)
March 12, 2016
(WG: Making broadband affordable for everyone)
March 13, 2016
(BGS: "I wouldn't be good at doing what you need to do to get elected")
March 19, 2016
(WG: Automatic brakes by 2022, lay off the kids on social media, GM makes a deal with Lyft)
March 20, 2016
(BGS: Manufacturing isn't dead -- but it isn't stupid, either)
March 26, 2016
(WG: What occupies our time is what fills our minds)
March 27, 2016
(BGS: A ceremonial head of state)
April 2, 2016
(WG: The real Silicon Prairie movement we need)
April 3, 2016
(BGS: If Sharp couldn't evade Foxconn, technology alone isn't enough to save a company)
April 9, 2016
(WG: The future of Yahoo; Google's product graveyard; your-name-dot-com)
April 10, 2016
(BGS: So much human potential, so many ways it's under-utilized; saving newspapers; Netflix subscription rates are rising)
April 16, 2016
(WG: QR codes come to the Blue Screen of Death)
April 17, 2016
(BGS: Expert tracks versus management tracks in the labor force)
April 23, 2016
(WG: ##)
April 24, 2016
(BGS: We've been under-paying our social-cohesion taxes)
April 30, 2016
(WG: A politician gets a lot of things right about technology -- Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska)
May 1, 2016
(BGS: Brian Dean's final show with us)
May 7, 2016
(WG: No, we are not dumber than people who lived 30 years ago)
May 8, 2016
(BGS: Korean Air's super-tall tower in LA signals that the US is the world's best place to invest)
May 14, 2016
(WG: Facebook's new live-streaming is headed toward creating huge trouble)
May 15, 2016
(BGS: TSA shortcomings create a huge deadweight cost for the economy)
May 21, 2016
(WG: Technology making jobs better for humans to do)
May 22, 2016
(BGS: Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations)
May 28, 2016
(WG: Undersea data cables, responsibility for robotic errors)
May 29, 2016
(BGS: Public infrastructure and private infrastructure, scaling back the Executive Branch, an honorable alternative)
June 4, 2016
(WG: Microsoft password rules and a European "code of conduct" for social networks)
June 5, 2016
(BGS: Chicago revives my faith in humanity somehow)
June 11, 2016
(WG: Gawker, social media, and challenges to free speech today)
June 18, 2016
(WG: Microsoft buys LinkedIn, IBM enters weather forecasting, Uber and Airbnb face restrictions)
June 19, 2016
(BGS: ##)
June 25, 2016
(WG: Tronc and the future of news; smartwatches for cheapskates; Solar City and Tesla)
June 26, 2016
(BGS: Commentators and pundits must stop using the word "elites" ASAP)
July 2, 2016
(WG: Facebook revises its news feed -- and publishers are going to go nuts; your next accountant may be an AI; ten rules for the coming era of technology)
July 3, 2016
(BGS: "The pursuit of happiness" has a lot of deep meaning; the colonies left England in part because we wanted more free trade, not less; trial by jury today and yesterday)
July 9, 2016
(BGS: An NTSB for police-involved shootings; "free college" isn't free; Trump's sympathy for the devil)
July 16, 2016
(BGS: Polk County gets a texting-while-driving conviction; the nation's governors in Des Moines; selling Paramount Pictures to the Chinese)
July 23, 2016
(BGS: Unpredictability is usually a character flaw on the world stage; too many itchy trigger fingers; the Russian connection to the DNC email leak)
July 30, 2016
(BGS: Lots of young men who have nothing productive to do; tolerance is ambitious, but necessary; what Putin wants to gain from election interference)
August 6, 2016
(BGS: The real heroes serve on community boards; we fail ourselves when we fetishize, professionalize, and corporatize too much of our charity; libertarianism is centrism; establishing yourself online)
August 13, 2016
(BGS: Insist on seeing Johnson and Weld on the stage; Olympic swimmers from the "refugee" team)
August 15, 2016
(BGS: We need an NTSB for police-involved shootings; Google Fiber, minus the fiber; threatening to flake out on mutual aid fundamentally undermines our alliances)
August 20, 2016
(BGS: Baton Rouge flooding vs. the Floods of 1993; the teach-yourself economy; big debt and the worry for states)
August 27, 2016
(BGS: The wrong kind of protest doesn't bring attention to your point; lies about "bringing back" manufacturing jobs; unaccompanied kids in self-driving cars)
October 29, 2016
(BGS: Making peace with the probability of a Clinton election; the honorable alternative; higher minimum wages in Polk County and beyond)
November 5, 2016
(BGS: Noticing economic signals around us; vote, then pay your civic rent; police officers, innocent Des Moines kids, and drowned refugees all deserve to be mourned because all lives have equal value)
November 12, 2016
(BGS: Economic policy doesn't have a lot of altitude, airspeed, or options if things go wrong; the political parties are weak; make Social Security a top priority)
December 3, 2016
(BGS: Don't count on 4% economic growth; the dignity of the Oval Office is like a bonsai tree; Republicans should sound the alarm about Russian attacks)
December 17, 2016
(BGS: A billion Yahoo accounts were compromised -- a billion! What you should do.)