#329: Will Rinehart’s Wild Weird Brain

Tech Policy Podcast

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Technology

4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Will Rinehart is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity. In this episode, a wide-ranging discussion of his work, he expands on whether the FDA should declare aging a disease, how to measure broadband access (and best allocate broadband funding), what we can learn from last year’s Facebook blackout, and why we need an abundance agenda. From the nitty-gritty details of policy to big-picture questions about our future, Will is thinking about it all. You can find out more about his various projects, including several he mentioned on the show, at his website.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the tech policy podcast. I'm Corbyn Barthold.
0:17.4	Ordinarily on this show, we have a topic, and we get get a guest and the guest and I discuss the topic
0:24.5	straightforward this one's going to be a bit different today we're going to organize things
0:32.0	around the ginormous and eclectic brain of will Reinhart. Oh, boy.
0:39.5	All right.
0:39.8	Yeah.
0:44.4	Will is a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity.
0:49.4	He agreed a while back to come on the show, and I had a loose idea of something we could talk about.
0:51.1	But as I was going through his work, I kept hitting different things and going, oh, well, we have to cover that.
0:57.7	And eventually, it just became clear that the main theme here is stuff that interests Will Reinhardt.
1:04.0	So that's what we're going to do.
1:06.4	My plan is to cover aging research and the FDA, the tricky task of mapping broadband access,
1:15.6	lessons from last year's Facebook blackout, and the need for an abundance agenda.
1:22.8	There are yet other things I want to pick his brain about, but we'll see how far we get.
1:27.4	So, Will, welcome to the show. Corny. are yet other things I want to pick his brain about, but we'll see how far we get.
1:30.3	So, Will, welcome to the show.
1:32.3	Corbyn, thanks for having me.
1:35.7	And, yeah, thanks for making this all about me.
1:43.3	This is all I've ever wanted in a podcast, is somebody to just, is just to talk to me and just, you know, accept that maybe I have something interesting to say.
1:44.4	But, but, yeah, thanks much.
1:47.4	I think you're only the second person who's going to get,
1:50.2	so we had Renee Doresta on.
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