Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast. I'm I'm in Swarstrom. On today's show, online voting. There's a can of worms for you. We just had an election in the United States back in November, and cyber meddling in the election was a major storyline. And we just had DefCon happening out in the Valley where hackers were

breaking into voting machines. But of course, there are other things going on with online voting,

like the potential to increase turnout and what effect it will have on civic engagement and discourse.

And so how do we weigh the potential benefits and costs

of implementing online voting more broadly in the United States? Well, joining me to discuss this

is Andrew Weinrich. He is a tech entrepreneur and host of the podcast predicting our future. Andrew,

thanks for joining the show. Thank you, Evan. I'm glad to be joining. So before we jump into the topic of online voting,

it's always great to have a fellow podcaster on the show. So tell me about predicting our future

and what listeners could expect to hear on that show. So we recently launched. I think we've got a total of nine episodes

that have come out. My career has been spent starting technology businesses where I thought

there was an opportunity to be massively disruptive. So picking a vertical that I thought was about

to change and then building a business in it. The podcast is focused on this

idea that there are inevitabilities. In some cases, there are inevitabilities. In some cases,

there are just strong likelihoods that verticals are going to be disrupted. And if you're an entrepreneur,

that's particularly interesting because you can focus on playing in a space where it looks like

there's significant changes afoot. If you're not an entrepreneur, it's interesting just to have a

perspective of what the future looks like. So the

podcast is around identifying in different series verticals. So we talk about factory-built housing

and how in the not too distant future, a majority of our homes, a majority of apartment buildings are

likely to be constructed inside of factories. Now, that may be 20 years away, but it's not 100

years away. And then we just did a series on online voting. And in a time when you buy every product online,

in a time when you pay your bills online,

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