The use of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare and hospitals is the topic in this installment of Freakonomics Radio. With AI being software, the significance of market leader Epic Systems is necessarily discussed.
Glassical Music
Violin Concerto No. 1, by Philip Glass. From 1987, five years after Koyaanisqatsi.
Bombing Iran
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld saw regime change in Iraq as unfinished business from George Bush Sr.’s administration. They got Bush Jr. to go along with their plan to depose Saddam Hussein.
In 1980, while American embassy staff in Iran were being held as hostages, Trump was hanging around with his coke-snorting pal Roy Cohn. Donald sees Iran as unfinished business. That’s all there is to it, and nothing more.
Sky News isn’t quite right about 1980’s ‘Bomb Iran’. It was actually a parody of the Beach Boys cover of ‘Barbara Ann’.
Here’s the Doo-Wop original, by the Regents.
Armenia Calling
A city in the sky sounds like a better place to be.
From up there you can see for miles and miles.
Stax o’ Trax
I should have watched the HBO documentary, STAX: Soulsville USA before Steve Cropper died, but I’m doing it now. Eddie Floyd’s ‘Knock on Wood’ is my favorite in this collection. Who doesn’t love the theme from Shaft?
Regime Change in Iran
Israel wanted us to wage war with Iraq. Our president told us they had weapons of mass destruction and that regime change would result in a free society. So we waged war, which created chaos, and led to the formation of ISIS.
Israel wanted us to wage war with Iran. Our president told us Iran is building missiles that could soon hit the US and that regime change will result in a free society. So we are waging war. Now we wait for the outcome.