Finally, Thompson voiced his regret just one day after Medicare’s trustees announced that the drug benefit by itself has an unfunded liability 60 percent larger than that of the entire Social Security program. (The unfunded liability for all of Medicare is nearly six times that of Social Security.) Medicare’s financial outlook has grown so dire that its two public trustees broke with the trustees who are members of Bush’s Cabinet to say that it is in far worse shape that Social Security.
Daily Archives: April 6, 2005
BBC Reith Lectures 2005: The Triumph of Technology
MP3 audio files & transcripts (how 21st century!) of this excellent series:
- Technology will determine the future of the human race
- Collaboration
- Innovation & Management
- Nanotechnology & Nanoscience
- Risk & Responsibility
Colorado Municipal WiFi
The DenverChannel writes that the Colorado senate is voting on a bill that would support local municipal wifi…. (still no wifi at the Madison airport…)
The Death of the Music CD
Mark Cuban on the death of the music cd.
Election Results
The Dane County Clerk’s website includes election results from races around the county. Wispolitics has statewide results here.
Vint Cerf on the Internet’s next step
“My initial job was getting IP on everything,” Cerf said. That’s been done by now. IP is on every device from the smallest handheld to the largest supercomputer.
“Now we need IP under everything,” he added. By this he meant that now that the computers are all connected, we need to make sure that every device can use and access any service or product available to any one device.