March 20, 2010
On the eve of the House health-care vote, Dr. Dave urges listeners on every side to make themselves heard and explains how internet access, email, social networks and inexpensive calling changed political participation. He challenges tribal thinking about computer security, arguing that popularity, incentives, compatibility and human behavior matter more than brand loyalty, and insists that user mistakes are ordinary human mistakes rather than proof that users are stupid. Personal history fills the second hour as Dr. Dave and Evil Steve remember an extraordinary B-52 maneuver they witnessed in 1992 and Dr. Dave recalls his freshman-age son challenging a teacher’s explanation of World War II. The show closes with a classic consulting lesson: a company nearly replaced a good computer when only a few simple settings were wrong.
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