What should governments, private companies, and individuals do differently next time disaster strikes?

In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Michael Chui talks with Alec Stapp, co-CEO of the Institute for Progress, a Washington, DC, think tank he co-founded in January 2022. Progress is a policy choice, its founders say, and they have chosen to focus initially on three topic

Alec is the co-founder and co-CEO of the Institute for Progress. The IFP is dedicated to to accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress while safeguarding humanity’s future. Alec and co-founder Caleb Watney are supported by prominent progress thinkers such as Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collinson. We di

Why are there so many proposals to break up Big Tech, and what impact would that have?  PPI's Director of Technology Policy Alec Stapp joins the podcast to discuss the recent antitrust bills in Congress aimed at the biggest tech companies in the US.  We discuss which bills make sense and which don't, what members of co

Should the government require tech companies to provide backdoors for their encrypted devices?  Techdirt founder Mike Masnick and PPI's Director of Technology Policy Alec Stapp join the show to discuss encryption.  We talk about how encryption works, the bills currently making their way through congress, whether or not

Technologist Alec Stapp joins the show to discuss why the US lagged weeks behind South Korea in testing for COVID-19. While the failures of the FDA and CDC have been grim, the show does find a silver lining in the crisis, that technology has greatly eased the transition into social distancing for many Americans. How is