Apple and Google Team Up for Contact Tracing, and the Federal Reserve’s Rescue Plan
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai debate Apple and Google’s Covid-19 contact tracing plan. They also discuss the Federal Reserve, which has taken a series of unprecedented actions to prop up the economy.
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| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hi everyone.'re listening to after hours I'm young me I'm me here and I'm Felix how are you guys doing doing okay |
| 0:52.0 | feeling a little locked in at times but other than that it's all right. |
| 0:56.2 | I keep trying to convince myself that we're halfway there. |
| 0:58.9 | Oh really? You think halfway? |
| 1:00.3 | Well I don't know halfway's always been this important idea in my mind. |
| 1:03.0 | Like every time I reach a halfway juncture, it feels better, but I'm just not sure whether we're anywhere close to halfway. |
| 1:09.0 | If we are, that would make me feel better. |
| 1:10.0 | So it's based in no evidence whatsoever. |
| 1:13.0 | So this was one of those weeks where the three of us all came in wanting to talk about the same thing, |
| 1:20.0 | which almost never happened. |
| 1:22.0 | Never really. |
| 1:23.0 | So the first is we all wanted to talk about Apple and Google and their announcement that they're |
| 1:28.9 | collaborating to help facilitate technology behind contact tracing. |
| 1:33.7 | And I think to all of our surprise, |
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