Chris Berube

But what does it actually mean here?

Basically, interoperability is whether two things can work together, right?

So if you have shoes and shoelaces, if the laces are the right size, they fit inside the shoe, those two things are interoperable.

And in a digital context, two things are interoperable if they can talk to each other.

And parts pairing makes that difficult because with tractors, you know, you can buy some generic parts that is cheaper than what John Deere is selling, but it won't necessarily work because John Deere software might lock it out.

So these two things are not interoperable.

And tractors are kind of the tip of the iceberg here because this kind of thing can happen with all of our smart devices.

And Corey brought up this example to me, which is printers.

This is why I like Corey.

He paints some word pictures.

He puts a little mustard on the fastball.

And by the way, I did, I looked this up.

This is a bit of an exaggeration.

Like the Kentucky Derby winning semen is very expensive.

It's worth a lot of money, but printer is expensive too, right?

It costs like thousands of dollars a gallon, which is so much money.

I mean, shitty is the right word for it.

I mean, it's, it's awful.

Yeah, it's really shitty, and it's also a big problem with powered wheelchairs.

You have smart fridges.