Adam Harris

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1,438 appearances 16 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 2d ago

Adam Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Radio Atlantic · How the Government Wastes Our Time · 7 Sep 2026 podcast
we could be doing things, right? voice-verified
Is there a better way outside of these time taxes? voice-verified
How can the US make government programs more accessible? voice-verified
Well, I guess why, if there are so many ideas out there, why hasn't the government used some of those ideas, utilized modern technology in the same way that, right, like, if I wanted a burger right now, I could pull my phone forward and just, like... voice-verified
order it from DoorDash and it's here in 15 minutes. voice-verified
If I needed a car to get somewhere, it's like two clicks and I've got it. voice-verified
We have all of this modern technology. voice-verified
Why haven't they used that modern technology to streamline a lot of this stuff? voice-verified
mean, they might be. voice-verified
voting voice-verified
About the sort of weaponization of data that we've seen over the last year and a half and like the counter argument to the government should do more things to make lives better with our data is that the government can also take our data and do things that are nefarious if they so chose to, right? voice-verified
You can look at the Stasi. voice-verified
You can look at the Pinochet regimes. voice-verified
How – voice-verified
How do you sort of balance those concerns? voice-verified
Or does the government just already have so much data that they don't necessarily factor in? voice-verified
You point to Estonia in the book as a sort of prime example of a place that's successfully easing the administrative burden on their citizens. voice-verified
But you also mentioned that they're a small country. voice-verified
And as you were talking about the sort of gargantuan task of making the systems talk to each other in the United States, it makes me think that we have a sort of scale problem here that we might just be too big to eliminate some of the cumbersome bureaucracy. voice-verified
But how do you square the sort of Estonian example with our context in the U.S.? voice-verified
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