The fact that i make them say tinker printers. But to highlight people that people havent heard of and left to the Hometown Hero who makes things like this. Beautiful sleek design, utilitarian, i can use this as a weapon, a weapon, of course they have to be shorter than me, he actually described it to me which is really cool its a cool thing for me. He started out in a garage and was one of those people who im sure many are like this i dont mean to be gender discriminatory here but, theres a dad, uncle, brother, grandfather, there always tinkering around in their grudges fixing something. I was talking with someone earlier to one of the receptions about how it bugs me and it bug me with mild kids because, sorry jessie, im going to talk about my husband for a minute. Raised in berkeley california. I had to make him go on an rv trip and how to do the hookup. He had never gotten his hands dirty. Theres a mentality from my generation that i dont know how to change a wind chill a windshield wiper, i will have someone else do it. We are not the fixit generation. The idea of restoring this especially among young people is a very important. Actually theres a lot of promise and that now. We have a Resurgence Movement of makers. And if you read make magazine . Cool. Thats what i read on the airplane, yeah, with people mixing two, sure. They are using little bits to do like electronic circuits and robots, their last chapter of the book talks about many young people who are developing the next generation of prosthetics in this country. There power in them with lego and prototyping them. This reminds me, obama was that one of the science fairs a few months ago. There was a group of girl scouts from the heartland, girl scout troop with a lego powered page turning device. Really cool. So obama gets down there, asking them about how they made this and a really smart little girl said, well we prototyped the first and i love watching this video, she said what have you ever thought up of . So, theres no teleprompter so we get that look, i know there are some of you in this room who know what he said but prepare yourself, he said, healthcare. He said that. [laughter] the only thing that would have made it better killer viral video, as if the girl scout had laughed in his face. If my daughter had been a girl scout asking that question, yes. He said, now i hope hope that all the parents of those girl scouts went home and told their girls the rest of the story. He came up with healthcare . These people dont make things, they destroy things. The upshot of that is that you have these kids there during amazing things, that is where i derive some sense of optimism about the future of this country. There still are parents and grandparents out there teaching their kids to make things with their hands. I have been incredibly blessed and fortunate to be able to be an internet entrepreneur. To be able to make a prophet and make a living, and put food on the table with words, with bits and bytes, with my big mouth. It is not some sort of it. Listen, or whatever overland where they want to use to assert, because we know from this journey through history that i have taken, and that hopefully you are embarking on in your College Career somehow whether you have to supplement outside the classroom or not, that this is uniquely american. That only in america has this been allowed to flourish in a way that it has, nowhere else on the planet. This leads me to something i want to talk about which the Founding Fathers bequeathed to us which is under great threat. That is our unique patent system. Do we have any patent holders . Yes. What did you patent . Medical devices, which of course are taxed under obama care, yes. [laughter] [applause]. I love it. Couldnt pay you enough, did not plant you there . Article 1, section section eight of the constitution does something incredible. It guarantees the right of inventors and authors to be able to profit from the fruits of their minds and their fruits of their labor. Nowhere else in the planet has this idea been embodied in a founding document. Because, our Founding Fathers understood that the ambiguity to prophet benefited the public good. This is a formulation that, if if you ordered it on msnbc every head would explode. Profit is a public good. It is in and of itself the ability to profit is a public good. That is because of these founding principles protecting intellectual private property. What happened was the development of a patent system has enshrined this idea, that if the inventors who were the first to invent who should be able to benefit. Under obamas radical transformation of america, that very founding principle has once again and turned on its head, i need to have a mean what i talk about these people, everything is upside down. In 2011, i have pangs of patent law is just that one of those things you see on cable tv debated about. This is what is so insidious. We are so busy putting out so many fires and fighting some of the big battles, meanwhile they are slipping under the table radical changes like this. What they did, what they adopted unfortunately, with some bipartisan support, bipartisanship is such a pain sometimes is in it. They turned our patent system principle on their head. So rather than the first to invent, those who are rewarded now are the first to file, now where did they get this idea . It was harmonization with the rest of the world, because the rest of the world have been beat and are both innovation for so long, right . Why is it that we have to now conform to International Standards that are proven to be less successful than our unique system . Its because anything that is unique to america is to progressivism. It gets worse. That wasnt enough to file the socalled america invents act. All these massive pieces of legislation, it is opposite world. It is the america want invents act. Even just this last week and in the next few weeks therell be a debate in the senate over more pieces of legislation to further codify these ideas. I have to tell you, i have already heard from so many independent, Small Business people who are filing patents who are affirming what i am talking about, what ive written about, and heard from from any patent law scholars who have their heads straight about this and understand what the Constitutional Foundation for innovation and progress are. I have to redo this quote. I think it says it best about the miracle of the monday. Its his famous observation about the work ethic but particular about innovation, he said said quote, what most strikes me in the United States is not the extraordinary size of a few projects, it is the countless numbers of small ones. Anthony trollope, and i put this at the beginning of the book said something similar. The great glory of the americans is in their wanderings, and their patent remedies for that usually operations of life. This is what i meant about the miracle of the monday. Out there, right now, so many millions of these independent inventors and innovators. They are making things that are small, that get taken for granted entry mentioned to me that he was a couple doors down from the guy who originated the selfie stick. Which i had my first encountered with in the overflow room, hey and Bernie Sanders world, who needs a selfie stick . Right . Mr. Decider of need then wants. Doesnt it actually describes so many of these dogooders and control freaks in washington . Why do you get to decide what i need, what i want, what i desert, desert, what i am entitled to. Why is it that im the selfish one i knew, the coarser, you, the liberty inhibitor are the doer a public good . It is opposite world. To be able to really expose and to do it with a happy smile on her face because we are the ones who are trying to lift people up, to achieve the American Dream that they are all playing a trip a lip service to. When i end up on cable tv, a lot of times if i am doing a debate a lot of people come out and theyre very depressed. Not just over the last several years but decades. It is hard to fight on a daily basis when you know where weve been, when you know what is taken to get where we are i see the road ahead. I have so much inspiration from the people that i highlighted, there is another girl scout troop who invented a lego powered presser camper little girl who was born with a congenital defect. These girls somehow understood the magic of patent. I. I quote one in the book, there are so proud they said, this means we have made it. Thats right. On many levels, you built that, and making it in america means being able to profit off that patent. 84yearold anthony told me, were in his son filled cafeteria, the sky looks like a cross between mark twain and Albert Einstein with the wild hair. He has this mechanics jackets, like fonzie. This is tony on there. This idea that the ceo with these people who are just here are all a visit employees calling him by his first name. Hi tony, hows it it going, hugging him on the factory floor. Despite the setbacks that he has had, the federal lightbulb am prevented him from Going Forward with an incandescent ball, renovations that he had been planted. The outsourcing that that he has been going on, that he fought tooth and nail, competition competition from china, 100 million that he had to spend fighting a patent infringement, 8484 years old and he is still going. 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As well as first as class, biography of bill clinton. Tell new to to shut up, and barack obama, the story. Book tv, this weekend, three days of nonfiction books and authors on cspan2. Television for serious readers. Coming up, two writers talk about science and innovation theres. Ashley vance is the author a book and engineer in austin. Kevin kevin ashtons book is how to fly horse, the secret history of creation and invention. They were part of the texas book festival held in austin earlier this year. Good afternoon, thank you for joining us for the silicone valley panel. I will be a moderator this afternoon. Id like to take a moment to thank the folks to make this festival free, fun, fantastic. Thats who you see in the red shirts. Thank you for helping me think the volunteers. [applause]. In a moment i will introduce our authors, i want to make a few housekeeping announcements, will spend spend a few minutes with each author discussing their book and then i would like the two in conversation about the broader topic of innovation and creativity. Well save time for q a afterwards, i would like you to ask your questions at that time, as soon as were done well go over to the book signing tent, they, they will be a table 21, ill encourage you to pick up a copy of their books. Im sure theyll be good enough to sign them i hope, maybe take a photograph. I encourage you to purchase the book through our barnes noble partner, theyre very generous in giving a portion of the proceeds back to the book festival each year which we appreciate. That helps fund this festival and our year round Texas Library grant which helps rule librarys in texas cities maintain a robust system of programming. For a limited time your local libraries running a promotion of free books. They also help us with reading rock stars, the program with innercity schools and authors read their books to the students and in many cases give the students a hard copy of the book which is often the only book of the childs household. Without to see you at the tent in the table 21. Thank you again for coming. To my left is ashley vance, former reporter for the New York Times, the author of the New York Times bestseller, elon mosque. To his left, kevin ashton, three technology startups, cofounder of mit, most notably notably known for coining the term the internet of things. His book how to fly horse. The secret history of creation innovation and discovery. [applause]. Let me start with kevin, for the simple reason that kevins book, the preface starts with as all Great Stories do, the do, the story of a man named wolfgang. [laughter] in this case it was mozart not myself. But it starts with Wolfgang Mozart and it weaves a narrative of the historical and can temporary tales of innovation. I got the sense of how important setbacks and difficulties were for these folks. Could we start with was the inspiration for the book originally . I found myself at mit. I studied scandinavian studies at the university. I was hired by Procter Gamble to range color cosmetics. And then i was at mit. I felt like a complete fraud. I was was leading this group of amazing creative people and i assumed, guess that many that they had ideas in the bathtub and things are coming to them spontaneously. I know my ideas were the result of trying and failing, so i felt odd when i first got there. Is about the same time that everyone was getting it to harry potter. I felt like i was at hogwarts but i wasnt a wizard. Then i realized realized they were not doing any magic. They were better at it than i was, but theyre also trying and failing and going through series of steps. The people wanted me to talk about the Creative Process and how to innovate because i was leaving something at mit. So i started talking about how wasnt magic, his work. Someone said you have to write a book about this, and thats the book. Were good. Very substantial. The book covers many of the historical innovators from, the muppets are prominently featured in this book which i did not see coming. Its a happy accident. You weave so many this a similar narrative how did the muppets get in there and what were some of the other ways you are able to draw on so many other sources. In the universe of innovation how do you decide what to grab and what to leave . So the big point here is the way human beings create is basically the same matter what they are creating. I talk about alternative the book, the way you create a piece of Classical Music is not that different than the way you create bert and ernie if youre jim henson. So by looking looking at lots of different, apparently different creative works i was able to show the fundamental processes the same no matter what. The stories were, once i was curious about a lot of the book is about one thing leading to another, thats also how it came across some of these stories. Any of your own personal background or experience that matches that . Absolute, my experiences very much i wrote books about what people call creativity which is not a word i like to use. We brought into this myth of genius in solving problems without thinking about them and aha moments. On them for experience we learned thats not how it works. Not only the history of the thinkers and creative innovators, this goes back 50,000 years, you touch on the beginning of homo sapiens in the evolution and how they began to evolve. How did you drawn that history . Did you go through anthropology track, how did, how did you go back that far . That something that intrigued me. Its incredibly relevant to the process of creating. This is not something we hear often enough, the thing that makes us unique as human beings is that we have the ability to improve within our own lifetime. An example, if you look at a birds nest today and a birds nest from 20000 years ago, it will be exactly the same. There is not a meeting going on right now where a bird and a black turtleneck striding around on the stage unveiling birds nest sixpoint oh. Looks bigger and faster and has a bigger screen. There quite a few animals but the difference between us and them is there a product of instinct. So if their course change at all it changes evolution. No human human beings has this unique capability to manipulate symbols. I am doing it right now. Sorry you. Im doing language. Language is. Language is symbolic. The interesting thing about language by the way, is its actually not primarily for speaking buffer thinking. So we have this ability to imagine and represent thing symbolically, to manipulate the symbols and i consider what might happen if we put these two things together before we do it. That is creating. It is uniquely and innately human. We all have it. Which is why we became this successful species within 50000 years which is when humans started display in this tendency. Its also why i can tell stories about the muppets and mozart and see basically they are the same, we we all have this innate ability to be creative. Its not equal and everybody, but it is present and everybody. The way we do it is basically the same no matter who we are. It made me think of a biologist to set Something Like im not so much disturbed by the harm and violence that may have put upon himself of the years, but but rather how many geniuses and brains were lost. How many had it in their dna but never had the opportunity. The spark is not so much being bore the genius, is the process of overcoming adversity, dealing with setbacks, believing in themselves of innovation and support ecosystems. That seems to be a prevalent theme. Its worse than that and away. Everybody can create. I dont you male, female, black, oh white, straight, gay, whatever you have this ability to be creative. As a species we depend on our creative ability to survive and thrive. Right now we live in a society which has this genius, which by the way is generally cold for white man. We have all of these other people with ability who is being oppressed. By oppressing them were diminishing on potential species. Its very important to recognize the create ability and everybody. We all benefit from it ultimately. In your opinion, what are ways we can actually do that. We have to get rid of this myth of creating genius. Any see it actually. They have a book about one guy who is achieving incredible things, but there are tens of thousands of people working with him, he may be the most important among them, but hes nothing without them. So my crusade is really to have us all recognize humanity and our own potential and help one another develop that. That is how we slayed the myth of one white guy who is a genius who who can do something that we can do. Its just not true. I think mozart and muppets, i think theres more to come. I also forgot to mention kevin lives in austin spends most of his time driving to make it more crowded. You are here now, whats keeping you busy these days . I am writing my next book, i traveled the world speaking, i just got back from monte carlo which was lovely. I had a great time and i am living the austin dream. If you now from here supposed to tell you to go home but actually welcome you. This this is one of the best places on earth. Will said [applause]. I want to move on to eli mosque for a few minutes. I must say i have a man crush on a lawn. He is been number of hours in the Texas Capital lobbying for the removal but i want to thank you for joining us today. His book is a fantastic, in my opinion the only real in depth look at elon musk. The fantastic read into his background in a biography but it touches on the entire innovation process and what you can see for the future, believe it or not most of our future will be dictated by the sky, another rich white guy. But i think elon is special so i wanted to dive into that. So what would be the inspiration for writing this book . Well in Silicon Valley for about 15 years now, in a lot of ways this would have been on an unlikely book for me to do, elon was never guys that interested in. He had these companies that i would cover regularly and he seemed to me like the guy who is a blowhard in Silicon Valley. Who knows promise these fantastic things and they would take much longer to deliver. Around 2012 things change for me. For people who dont follow what he does, he gave back his commercial company, they docked with the internationals playstation and replace the space shuttle. He he give us a chance to get to space instead of depending on the russians. The car company came out with a sedan, and his first car was seen as more of a toy for rich people. The model us still caters to rich people but it was viewed as may be the best cart car that was ever built. Credit. Solar city is the 3rd company. A Solar Power Company filing throughout Public Offering and became the United States largest installer. This all happened in the span of about three months. As far as industrial scale even though he has a lot to prove there is no one in history that has been in this diverse in the field. And so i did a cover story on him and ended up to father went to the factory in Silicon Valley and then went to the rocket factory in los angeles. That blew methat blew me away as well, and this time we are told we cant make anything. This guythis guy was building these complicated things in the most expensive cities. It is not for show. The space x rocket factory is about 4 miles from lax. I thought they would be hand making one rocket for their massproducing rocket. It kind of blew me away. I had a chance to interview elon and he was just much more interesting. I pegged him as aa techno utopian kind of guy but he was authentic, a good interview, surprisingly down to earth in a lot did not have a lot of answers. It was just me and him. Ive been looking for a book to do and thought this was the guy. He was running counter to so much of the stuff and Silicon Valley which is quick hits, entertainment, consumer services. Backtrack a moment, how did you originally pitch it to him . Those were difficult. We had a pretty good rapport coming out of that. He has a controversial relationship with journalists. We had gotten along okay. I like to do a book on you. He said colloquy that he was going to write his own book. So i took that is unlikely and he definitely brushed me off and then i took a risk i went and sold the book in new york a couple months later. I thought that would force his hand. If i sold the book and came back to him and told him that he would end up cooperating. We have this big meeting in tesla one saturday. Teslas. Teslas office, the factories in Fremont California on the edge of Silicon Valley and the office is in palo alto in these days most people do not work on the weekends like they did back 20 or 30 years ago. The parking lot was full of cars and i walked in and he has everyone working on saturday. He made me wait about an hour for our meeting. He comes in, and he sits down and made small talk. So impressive, you have all these people here on a saturday. The 1st thing out of his mouth, its funny that you say that come i was just about to send an email to everybody tell you how softly gotten andsoftware gotten and i expect more people to be here on the weekend. We got off to a rough start and then i told him i sold the book and again he told me he was not going to cooperate. There was this moment where i decided, can i do this and not know decided to go ahead and spent the next 18 months interviewing about 200 people, exemployees. New line also cofounded paypal. His ex girlfriends, his worst enemies call the stuff and after 18 months that seem to where him down. One day i was at home and got a call. He decided that we would chat it out. He ended up cooperating with the book after that. I interviewed him for about eight months ago access. I want to give too much away, but this is the only access irc like this. The book has been out. It is a New York Times bestseller. Has there been any feedback indirectly . It has been a bit of a roller coaster. He was he wanted to see the book before was published. Did he pick out the cover photo . Thank me for that photo. Whatphoto. What is standing in front of . That is a space x engine. He wanted to read the book. He wanted to put footnotes in the book and i would not let him. I did let them see the book before. Hehe did not have to buy it on amazon. And so his initial reaction at about 50 emails waiting for me. He works 24 hours a day. Keep it going paragraph by paragraph through the book. Nothing too controversial. A couple days passed and he said the book is accurate. He gave me a 90 percent accuracy rating. And he said it was well done and the press got a hold of the book and mostly focused on what a glossy is. Then he had a bigger reaction after that. I had to make comparisons, but were talking about the tech giants. What similarities or differences that have . Definitely different. There are comparisons you could make. Preserving the company because off to the cover letter. Looking at the sun visors of the car. It is very elon way. And so that is absolutely something that elon wanted and his engineers fought him on. The new it will be difficult to do. Did have problems. It has become one of the signature things. It is exactly the same way he actually makes sometimes good, sometimes bad decisions. He goes down to that level. I probably draw more parallels to like edison getting huge quantities of people. Bright ambitious and capable people to dedicate there lives. I think thats probably the biggest accomplishment. Space x in particular, he was to create a colony on mars which is a tough thing to sell on wall street. Has been determined not to take space x public. Everybody else. You have a little bit of everyone. Having interviewed most of these people more capable across a broader set of things. Makes plenty of mistakes but is quite good. We want to thank him for putting the facility in brownsville. You mentioned this earlier. You are on aa flight from San Francisco with a guy reading the book. I dont want to oversell. This guy, it was interesting. Reading the book and told me my tapped him on the shoulder near the end of the flight. He said, ive gotten a few emails like this. I guy who was kind of midcareer and he was going to quit his current job and go do something that was more risky. He wanted to go you identified to startups. It has been funny since the book came out. People, this is sort of what i wanted to do. Going to law school. Maybe they were cursed me in a few years. They wanted to get a job or go back get an engineering degree. Some of that is rewarding
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