What Next TBD: The Code That Runs Your Life

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Banks, healthcare providers, and retailers around the world still rely on COBOL, a programming language originally developed in the 1960s. By all accounts the code is powerful, practical, and very rarely problematic. But the small group of people who still know the language are aging out of the workforce. What happens when there are no more COBOL coders left? Guest: Clive Thompson, journalist and author of "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World." Host: Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:33.9	Good afternoon, everybody.
0:36.9	Just to remind folks what our plan is for the next couple of days.
0:40.4	Early on in the pandemic, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy held these regular press conferences.
0:46.0	This one was in April of 2020. Unemployment was skyrocketing. Almost 17 million claims had been filed around the country in the previous three weeks.
0:54.8	President Trump had just signed the CARES Act, which gave unemployed workers another 600 bucks on top of state benefits.
1:00.9	And New Jersey's unemployment website kept crashing as people tried to sign up.
1:06.0	So Murphy came to this press conference with a request.
1:09.0	And secondly, in our list of volunteers, Judy Nellie,
1:11.4	not only do we need health care workers,
1:12.9	but given the legacy systems,
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