Posted on 10/07/2013 2:56:09 PM PDT by giant sable
Two technology stories have filled the airwaves in recent days: the impending Twitter IPO, which is predicted to raise more than $1 billion; and the Obamacare online roll-out, which has crashed in a welter of locked-out applicants and frozen exchanges.
The connections between the two events are deeper than you might think – and they represent the latest milestones along the diverging responses by industry and government to the birth of the technology revolution more than a century ago.
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Because it’s not their money.
Progressives control all major internet portals and got Caliph Baraq re-elected.
I’d like to have their batting average...
Yeah? Well the ‘Progressives’ got tech for the last election right for Zero.
Headline should have been “why government always gets technology wrong”. As you rightly point out progressives are doing fine with it.
It’s funny, because a sizable percentage of the techies I know are “progressives.”
Romney messed up with ORCA. So the article got that right.
We know the various website develop contracts for Obamacare were awarded on the basis of politics rather then capability
Thr President is a failure. If he were worth a damn, the web site would function
He can not run an ice creal truck or a lemon ade stand
I was just going to point out Romney’s ORCA debacle.
Amen to that. And given Obama’s GOTV approach was based on Karl Rove’s effective 2004 GOTV machine, it shows just how pathetic the McCain and Romney camps were when it came to technology. ORCA, anyone?
They missed the biggest impending disaster of all: the identity theft of all that PII (Personally Identifiable Information) which is ripe for the picking in those poorly secured ObamaCare databases.
When their own livelihoods are on the line, yes, they seemed to zero right in on what was effective. When it comes to playing God with our livelihoods, that's when their ideology and hubris seem to short-cicuit their brainwaves.
http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-to-brush-your-teeth-in-6-seconds.html
To get technology right you have to care enough to try to get it right.
Exactly. Stupid article.
Um, no, government doesn’t always get technology wrong: the basic structure of the internet was provided by the ARPAnet (from back when DARPA was just called ARPA), the http protocol came out of CERN (okay, not the U.S. government, but government nontheless), and then there’s the GPS system. Sometimes government gets technology right.
I would say "government didn't always get technology wrong." I would add NASA pre-2000 to your list.
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