Explain to Shane
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Technology has become increasingly important to policy debates, but these debates won’t be productive without an understanding of how the technology in question works. AEI Visiting Fellow Shane Tews interviews tech industry experts to explain how the apps, services, and structures of today's information technology systems work, and how they shape our social and economic life.
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CISA vs. CISA: How Cybersecurity Legislation Is Being Held Hostage by Politics (with Caitlin Clarke, Cristin Flynn Goodwin, and Jim Lewis)
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Digital Currency as a Network (with Milton Mueller, Karim Farhat, Vagisha Srivastava, and Nicoletta Kolpakov)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Financial Data Upon Request (with Penny Lee)
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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When Portability and Social Media Meet (with Matt Reeder)
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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The Front Door to Your Digital Ecosystem: The Email Inbox (with Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo)
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Privacy and Governmental Surveillance (at the Technology Policy Institute’s Aspen Forum 2025)
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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The Digital Markets Act Is Undermining the App Economy by Weakening Security and Opening Data Doors (with Graham Dufault)
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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DNS Abuse and the Economics of Cybercrime (with Karen Rose)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Interoperability, Data Access, and User Freedom (with Matt Boulos)
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Inside the World of Domains (with Ram Mohan)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Reclaiming the Airwaves (with Harold Furchtgott-Roth)
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Adapting to the AI Era (with Bojan Tunguz and Brent Orrell)
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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AI, Governments, and God (with Father Paolo Benanti)
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Rethinking the Rules of Space (with Jay Schwarz)
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Personalization, Privacy, and Policy (with Rob Sherman)
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May 15, 2025 |
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The Spectrum Exchange: Networks, Security, and Innovation (with Peter Rysavy)
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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The Future of the Enterprise Browser
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Taking on DMV Bureaucracy (with Shane Bigelow)
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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The Fight against Drug Shortages (with Laura Bray)
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Navigating India's Digital Competition Landscape (with Shruti Rajagopalan and Shreyas Narla)
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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AI and the Future of Civics (with Adam Hinds, Michael Champigny, and Will Foster-Nolan)
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The Power of Pivots: How Smart Companies Change the Game (with Gary Shapiro)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The Future of Small Business Financing
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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The Broadband Dilemma (with Janice Hauge and Mark Jamison)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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AI's Corporate Takeover? (With Mark Johnson)
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Can We Childproof the Internet? (With Ari Cohn)
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Renewing the Partnership Between Government and Entrepreneurs (With Arun Gupta)
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Unpacking the Data Dilemma
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Busting Tech Myths (with Robert Atkinson and David Moschella)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Securing the Web with Route Origin Authorizations (with Grace Abuhamad and Robert Cannon)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Inside Tech's $2 Trillion Technical Debt (with Ken Silva)
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May 23, 2024 |
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Borderless Banking: How Crypto Cuts Through Red Tape (with Candace Kelly)
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May 09, 2024 |
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Defending the Digital Realm (with Jason Hogg)
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Global Connectivity Unplugged (with Brian Barritt and Michael Cheng)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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What Has Been Done to Address Online Lag? (with Jason Livingood)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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What Do the EU’s Tech Regulations Mean for the US? (With James Lewis)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Inside the Challenge against Phone Spam (with Dave Stewart)
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Making Sense of Music Streaming
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Beyond Bitcoin (with Yuval Rooz)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Candidates, Bots, and Ballots: How AI is Rewriting Political Advertising (with Scott Brennen and Matt Perault)
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Quantum: Computing’s Next Innovation Wave (with Alan Baratz )
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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The Paperless Revolution with Scott Wyatt
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Securing Your Digital Life in an Age of Hacks (with Harry Raduege)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Privacy, Data, National Security and the Principals for Data Sharing Globalization (with Sujit Raman)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Can We Future-Proof AI? (with Rob Reich)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Uncertainty & Technology: The Adaptability Imperative of Automation (LIVE with Brent Orrell—Part II)
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Uncertainty & Technology: The Adaptability Imperative of Automation (LIVE with Brent Orrell—Part I)
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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From Serving to the Server: How Sandboxx Is Changing Military Life (with Sam Meek)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Unpacking Misconceptions in Tech Antitrust (with Daniel Francis)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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From Pixels to Prosperity: Navigating Legal Frontiers and Disruptive Innovation Across Africa (with Susan “Guya” Obunga Otieno)
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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The Promise and Peril of AI in the Music Industry (with David Hughes)
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May 30, 2023 |
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The Importance of Spectrum Harmonization (with Roger Entner)
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May 16, 2023 |
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A Network of Networks: Modularity in Internet Governance (with Susan Ness)
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May 02, 2023 |
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One World, Two Webs: Can We Make A More Secure Internet? (with Paul Kupiec and Thomas Vartanian)
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Procuring Security: Government Software Modernization (with Ryan Triplette)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Spectrum, Satellites, and Subsidies: Telecommunications Decision Points in 2023 (with Michael O’Rielly)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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What Does the Right to Repair Really Mean? (with Jeff Westling)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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The Munich Security Conference at 60: Promoting International Cooperation, Trust, and Digital Security (with Benedikt Franke)
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Does the U.S. Have Global Tech Superiority? Our China Challenge Going Forward (with James Lewis)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Can Transatlantic Cooperation Transform the China Tech Race? (with Peter Brown)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Have We Turned a Blind Eye to Cybersecurity? (with Ambassador Robert O'Brien)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Establishing Global Spectrum Leadership and a Modern FCC (LIVE with Ajit Pai)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Effectively Managing Cyber Challenges in the Public and Private Sectors (with Jason Blessing)
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Helping Local “Microbusinesses” Thrive (with Alex Rosen)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Combatting the Problem of Domain Name Abuse (with Graeme Bunton)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Can We Modernize the Federal Identity System? (with Jordan Burris)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Reining in China’s Dominance of the International Telecommunication Union (with Danielle Pletka, Brett Schaefer, and Dominique Lazanski)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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“Building for Tomorrow”: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur (with Jason Feifer)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Integrating Extended Reality into Education, Work, and Daily Life (with David Scurlock)
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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How PayPal Laid the Groundwork for Silicon Valley as We Know It (with Jimmy Soni)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Congressional Chip Funding: Are We There Yet? (with Peter Cleveland and Jon Hoganson)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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The Challenge of Putting Federal Broadband Funds to Good Use (with Mark Jamison)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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An Update on the Global Intellectual Property Landscape (with Michael Rosen)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Re-Thinking Spectrum Sharing to Enable a 5G Future (with Peter Rysavy)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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A Look Inside a Cybersecurity Training Firm (with Keith Peer)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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The State of Our Nation's Cybersecurity (with Michael Chertoff)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Can the US and Europe Find Common Ground on Tech Policy? (with Peter Brown)
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May 17, 2022 |
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How to Build a ‘Trusted Future’ Online (with Adam Golodner)
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May 03, 2022 |
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How to Improve Mobile-Device Security (with Kevin McNamee)
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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How Congress Could Make Your Smartphone Less Secure (with Patrick Hedger)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Why computer chips have major geopolitical and national-security implications (with Chris Miller)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Does the chip industry need a boost from big government? (with Karl Wennberg)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Communications infrastructure and America’s connected future (with Todd Schlekeway)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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What will the next generation of the internet look like? (with Gabrielle Hibbert)
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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A potential breaking point for tech antitrust (with Matt Perault and Blair Levin)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Can technology improve supply chain management? (with Glenn Richey)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Unpacking the complexities of online content moderation (with Julie Owono)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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How is cybersecurity law being constructed? (with Jim Dempsey)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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A privacy-friendly digital wallet for children (with Rick Lane)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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A spectrum roadblock for the wireless industry (with Mike O’Rielly and Harold Feld)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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A co-author of Section 230 on the law’s past, present, and future (with Former Rep. Chris Cox)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Analyzing Congress' skirmish with Big Tech (with Jennifer Huddleston)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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What’s going on at the Federal Trade Commission? (with Bilal Sayyed — part II)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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What’s going on at the Federal Trade Commission? (with Bilal Sayyed — part I)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Should Section 230 be reformed? (with Neil Fried)
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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How data privacy laws have upended international trade (with Nigel Cory)
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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How are tech firms weathering the challenges of today’s market? (with John Godfrey)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Understanding the ‘splinternet’ and online security (with Nick Merrill)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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‘Privacy by design’: How to engineer better data governance (with Nishant Bhajaria)
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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The future of IP protections for COVID-19 vaccines and beyond (with Michael Rosen)
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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The race for quantum computing superiority (with Klon Kitchen)
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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How to improve trust and safety online (with Clara Tsao)
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Advancing cybersecurity through software ‘nutrition labels’ (with Allan Friedman)
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May 18, 2021 |
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The heavy cost of symmetrical broadband speeds (with Richard Bennett)
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May 04, 2021 |
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From idea to interstate: Getting more autonomous vehicles on the road (with Grayson Brulte)
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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What’s next for 12-GHz spectrum? (with V. Noah Campbell and Richard Bennett)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Making sense of Australia's standoff with Big Tech (with Bronwyn Howell)
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Digitizing the barter economy (with Josh Kline)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Do data protection laws really improve cybersecurity? (with Emily Taylor)
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Data protection, privacy, and the ethics of artificial intelligence (with Christina Montgomery)
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Expanding America's cyber toolbox (with Mieke Eoyang)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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How 5G wireless can put more Americans to work (with Michael Mandel and Sal D’Itri)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Shaping American tech policy at the Federal Communications Commission (with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai)
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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How coding can transform government (with Amanda Renteria)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Municipal broadband: Keeping Americans connected, but at what cost? (with Larry Spiwak and George Ford)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Spectrum re-allocation and 5G at the Federal Communications Commission (with Nathan Leamer)
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Paths forward on privacy: Balancing regulation, innovation, and public safety (with Brian King)
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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The rise of e-sports and competitive gaming (with Lindsay Poss)
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Constitution Day special (with Janine Turner, Cathy Gillespie, and Tova Love Kaplan)
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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America's 5G future: Risks and rewards (with Tommy Ross)
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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The need for federal IT modernization (with Jason Oxman)
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Contact tracing, data privacy, and ‘check-in culture’ (with Adrian Kinderis)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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The battle for global internet governance (with Dominique Lazanski)
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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The potential of the digital dollar (with Jim Harper)
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Global internet governance (with David Gross and Dustin Loup)
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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The American semiconductor industry and its global competition (with John Neuffer)
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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The making of global telecommunications policy (with Grace Koh and Patricia Paoletta, Part II)
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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The making of global telecommunications policy (with Grace Koh and Tricia Paoletta, Part I)
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Coronavirus, 5G, and restoring internet freedom at the Federal Communications Commission (with Joel Thayer)
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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“Permissionless innovation” during COVID-19 and beyond (with Adam Thierer)
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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The future of micromobility (with Michele Kyrouz)
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Using blockchain to beat COVID-19 (with Shane Bigelow)
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Telecom supply chain security and 5G (with David Stehlin)
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Broadband network capacity amid the COVID-19 pandemic (with Roger Entner)
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Jul 06, 2020 |