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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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155 episodes

  1. Making Online Safety Simpler (with Greg Oslan) 31:29
  2. Age Verification, Mobile IDs, and Online Privacy (with Scott Vien, Harry Oppenheimer, and Paul Lekas) 48:31
  3. Can Broadband Policy Keep Up with Competition? (with Sam Love) 25:31
  4. What Could America Build by 2035? (with David Ulevitch) 27:13
  5. How Do We Keep Kids Safe Online? (with Josh Tabish) 30:56
  6. Data-Driven Decisions in the Courtroom (with Benjamin Alarie) 49:30
  7. AI Governance and Open Models: Who Controls the Pace of Innovation? (with Milton Mueller and Thierer) 46:09
  8. Breakthrough Models and New Cyber Threats (with Evan Swarztrauber) 49:47
  9. Can Markets Modernize Spectrum? (with Roslyn Layton) 28:44
  10. Frontier AI and the Cybersecurity Challenges (with Kevin Frazier) 47:39
  11. Congressional Use of Artificial Intelligence (with Aubrey Wilson) 29:59
  12. Unlocking the Airwaves: Spectrum Allocation and Regulation (with Thomas Hazlett) 56:38
  13. Trust and Safety in a Fragmented Digital World (with David Sullivan and Farzaneh Badiei) 39:27
  14. Moving the Economy On-Chain (with Marc Boiron and Nicoletta Kolpakov) 45:35
  15. Has the Cloud Gone Global? (with Michael Greenwald) 27:42
  16. Data Centers and Power Grids: The Battle for AI Infrastructure (with Lynne Kiesling and Steve DelBianco) 48:50
  17. GPS, the Invisible Foundation of Modern Infrastructure, Needs an Update (with Dana A. Goward and Jeff Hathaway) 29:33
  18. The Future of Drones (with Brian Hinman and John Donovan) 17:46
  19. Technology and Vulnerability: How Current Cybersecurity Measures Fall Short (with Greg Oslan) 35:45
  20. How AI Is Shifting the Telecom Landscape (with Roger Entner) 32:41
  21. CISA vs. CISA: How Cybersecurity Legislation Is Being Held Hostage by Politics (with Caitlin Clarke, Cristin Flynn Goodwin, and Jim Lewis) 55:40
  22. Digital Currency as a Network (with Milton Mueller, Karim Farhat, Vagisha Srivastava, and Nicoletta Kolpakov) 48:37
  23. Financial Data Upon Request (with Penny Lee) 26:56
  24. When Portability and Social Media Meet (with Matt Reeder) 28:26
  25. The Front Door to Your Digital Ecosystem: The Email Inbox (with Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo) 32:42
  26. Privacy and Governmental Surveillance (at the Technology Policy Institute’s Aspen Forum 2025) 50:25
  27. The Digital Markets Act Is Undermining the App Economy by Weakening Security and Opening Data Doors (with Graham Dufault) 35:37
  28. DNS Abuse and the Economics of Cybercrime (with Karen Rose) 38:52
  29. Interoperability, Data Access, and User Freedom (with Matt Boulos) 45:19
  30. Inside the World of Domains (with Ram Mohan) 41:41
  31. Reclaiming the Airwaves (with Harold Furchtgott-Roth) 34:26
  32. Adapting to the AI Era (with Bojan Tunguz and Brent Orrell) 30:33
  33. AI, Governments, and God (with Father Paolo Benanti) 35:56
  34. Rethinking the Rules of Space (with Jay Schwarz) 36:44
  35. Personalization, Privacy, and Policy (with Rob Sherman) 39:40
  36. The Spectrum Exchange: Networks, Security, and Innovation (with Peter Rysavy) 31:01
  37. The Future of the Enterprise Browser 33:06
  38. Taking on DMV Bureaucracy (with Shane Bigelow) 31:25
  39. The Fight against Drug Shortages (with Laura Bray) 46:56
  40. Navigating India's Digital Competition Landscape (with Shruti Rajagopalan and Shreyas Narla) 32:42
  41. AI and the Future of Civics (with Adam Hinds, Michael Champigny, and Will Foster-Nolan) 29:34
  42. The Power of Pivots: How Smart Companies Change the Game (with Gary Shapiro) 29:35
  43. The Future of Small Business Financing 25:18
  44. The Broadband Dilemma (with Janice Hauge and Mark Jamison) 32:51
  45. AI's Corporate Takeover? (With Mark Johnson) 31:52
  46. Can We Childproof the Internet? (With Ari Cohn) 28:22
  47. Renewing the Partnership Between Government and Entrepreneurs (With Arun Gupta) 32:11
  48. Unpacking the Data Dilemma 35:38
  49. Busting Tech Myths (with Robert Atkinson and David Moschella) 37:04
  50. Securing the Web with Route Origin Authorizations (with Grace Abuhamad and Robert Cannon) 37:59