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Mother of all podcast feeds. The last 100 podcast enclosures from the community.. The last 100 podcast enclosures from the community.-John Palfrey of the Berkmann Center at Harvard Law School, discusses his new book written with Urs Gasser, emInterop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systemsem. Interoperability is a term used to describe the standardization and integration of technology. Palfrey discusses how the term can describe many relationships in the world and that it doesnt have to be limited to technical systems. He also describes potential pitfalls of too much interoperability. Palfrey finds that greater levels of interoperability can lead to greater competition, collaboration, and the development of standards. It can also lead to giving less protection to privacy and security. The trick is to get to the right level of interoperability. If systems become too complex, then nobody can understand them and they can become unstable. Palfrey describes the current financial crises could be an example of this. Palfrey also describes the difficulty in finding the proper role of government in encouraging or discourag...