Government as a Platform for Greatness
summary
Argues that government must become an interoperable platform, not a vending machine, citing concrete moves: data.gov as a platform that exposes weather and other datasets for third‑party services; the National Weather Service powering countless apps; the iPhone example where Apple ships ~15 apps and the ecosystem grows to nearly 200,000 apps; Marshall Plan (5% of US GDP), Berlin airlift cadence (planes every ~20 seconds), interstate highways, and GPS opened in 1983 as precedents that worked at scale. Advocates bold rebuilds, sunsetting legacy programs, and designing APIs and data so marketplaces can build useful services and businesses.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:10Government as a Platform
- 1:15Vending Machine Government
- 4:36Government as a Platform for Greatness
- 6:25Thomas Jefferson
- 7:02Marshall Plan
- 7:22Berlin Airlift
- 9:01What Is Hard Today
- 9:56Health Care
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