Regulators and industry talk past each other, while the ivory tower tries to cut through the middle.

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Americans continue to talk past each other by using a similar vocabulary while really discussing very different concepts.

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Nearly without exception the participants talk past each other.

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Irrational and polarized positions will talk past each other.

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And here's what all that means: This debate, which affects millions of middle-class families, isn't happening in a typical Washington bubble where pundits and policymakers talk past each other as they try to rack up political points.

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What I think all this means, at the end of 2012, is we have all this huge potential in social communications and companies like Google, Microsoft, RIM and Nokia are learning how to use it to create and perpetuate their own version of reality, while we often talk past each other.

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For that system of coordination to work, the three branches of government be able to talk with, and not past, each other.

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