I gave you in order. Is that listening right now, lady. John is this our future . We know its possible to build machines much smarter than our brains. John al so much good news. We have a sea of new media ye to capture the lions. Look at that. You, the public, will have five days to look on line to find out what did before i sign it. Citing things that this really dont want us to see. John what if you are hiding things you dont want the gornment to see . Whatever it is that what. The founder of with a pds. The internet and communication. That wld be good. John the teacher does not have to be good. John freedom to put up. Will increase. John thats our show. John what keeps you safe . What prevents fraud . Most people you asks a government. Government must lay out the rules and punish fraud. Protect people. So government regulates. Over the years as more regulaons and america we now have 170,000 pages of rules. People think we cant live without these, but then came the internet. Almost entirely unreguted, and it works. It is given us a new level of freedom. Lets call it Freedom Freedom 2. 0. I could not have imagined it before coble, would compete. I assume the Services Like those could not work. What a joke. Who would buy an unseen product from a total stranger without government regulation, it would makeure that the sellers are honest and a product for the. Another joke. Who would trust it. Thats why we need the world but in the encyclopedia of britannica. My dad. Even i have constantlycomplains about government control could t imagine what would be created outside them. One who did imagine it is jimmy wales who founded with the pds. How did you think this would work . Well, its interesting. When i started that did not think about competing with anybody. I had any idea and a bunch of friends, and we just are typing and try to figure it out as we went along and had some failures and then later some successes along the way. John you started for something called nubia combat that did not work. The concept was that if we were going to have an internet encyclopedia it needed to be even more academic than a traditional encyclopedia. We had a seven stage eview process to organize it. It was very intimidating for people to get involved in. It was a complete failure, and we stumbled across the concept and started using the software. We get more done in two weeks and almostwo years. It was amazing. John and then it built. All of these people are editing in adding things emselves. The usage rate kept rising. Today we have nearly 500 Million People using the website every month. John just over ten years for nothing to 500 Million People. One of the biggest upsets in the world, and at the beginning this stuffy establishment said this cannot work. You need editors. The user who visits with the pds is a visitor to a public restaurant. Something that is underappreciated. Its clean because reputation makes it. The premise is that you need to at page editors. Encyclopedia britannica pays 100 people to check the accuracy of articles. A Huge Community of people who are very enthusiastic, very eager to get things right. John you pay those people. Its a volunteer community, a charitable rojects. We are organized as a charity, so we exist from donations from the general public. All of the work that uc, the writing is done by the volunteer community. John w can you know whois good and who is stupid . You know, if nohing is one thing and always try to remind people is that we dont consider it would appeal to be some kin of wide opn former you can come and say and do anything. People will very quickly challenging. We have some of the best and most interesting discussions you can find anywhere. Lets actually find whats true, which sources to rely on the most. Its a fascinating process. John and its pretty accurate. My site onlly has one mistake. Comparing the accurac of scientific articles verses encyclopedia britannica. Panicle panels of experts and the appropriate specialty founder of course harry instapundit. Com errors per injury, three in britannica, not much difference. Not much difference, and that was several years ago. For me one of the most amusing parts, when the study was being carried out, as soon as it was published some people in the Community Came to me and said, can you get from the author the list of the errors becausee want to fix them. The and the response was to issue a 20 page denunciations of the study. That is the spirit of the times. They cant fix theirs. They printed and shipping out. We just want to make it better. John and more than a thousand dollars, even to buythe cd. Youre freak. Its an astonishing thing. We are still not fully all the way to realizing the dream of a free encyclopedia for every Single Person on the planet, but were getting closer. John thank you fr seeing it saying what i could not. Thank you. John the point of freedom 2. 0 is not that we dont need regulation. We do. It doesnt have o be government regulation. Economics professor writing a book called private governments. What do you mean . Most people assume that rules and regulations need to come from the state. If you look around the world today in history there are lots of examples at come from markets rather than from governments. John paypall. A great example. When they first came out they face fraud from all over the world. They turned to the fbi to try and track these people dow, but the fbi has no idea who these people rk, no idea what the technology was. John it cant work. That would be the traditional theory. In reality paypall realized they should take matters into their own hands. They developed a private from detection system where they would use computers t say this ght be fraudulent and then send it to a human to investigate. John another one. If they did not send you a 5 a pack. At what cost to 500,00. John people will she. That is the theory, but private parties look to problems and solve them. Ebay and other groups developed private reputation mechanisms. The more the these mechanisms work the last 20 government. John one thing that keeps me out is that they created all this wealth and good stuff to when they werent connected to government. Today theyre big in government wants a piece. 114 lobbyists, course of 73. They spend millions and trying to manipulate washington. Good things are terrible to the private sector. When government gets involved it is really getting regulating, getting people getting in the way people doing things. John another example of that, years ago they said frances way at of america. Giving every person a computer instead of phone book. You cant have one Organization Planning all the things that markets can. Markets rely on so many dispersed people to invent, to try ne things dry ad test their ideas in the marketplace. John went out of business. Still going strong. If you look throughout history, there are tons of examples of this. Government did not understand financial markets. They thought they were forms of gambling. Government refused to enforce all but the most simple contracts. Nevertheless, brokers figured out how to do short sales, futures contracts even though none of them were enforceable by law. In london in the 1700s they traded in coffee houses. After a while they decided, lets create and enforce rules with dennis, the house. If you default you are going to get kicked out of the coffee house. We are going to call you a lameduck. That is where the expression comes from. They have to waddle out and leave the exchange. John and the coffeehouse, one of the first ones begin the london stock exchange. Thats right. The mother became my word is my bond it. John thank you. We need government. We need regulation to make sure. It does not have to be government regulation. Coming up, how smart are robots about to get . Also, how the internet helps us keep an eye on government and out government officials polk out government officials polk at a dry cleaner, out government officials polk we replaced people with a machine. What . Customers didnt like it. So why do banks do it . Hello . Hello . if your bank doesnt let you talk to a real person 24 7, you need an ally. Hello . Ally bank. Your money needs an ally. No more secrecy. Thats a commitment i make to you. John no more secrecy sounds good. Everybody applauded. Ansparency is important in government. Government officials get to use force. They spend our money. We wouldnt be able to see what they do. They like that. Once in office even advocates of transparency kirk start keeping stuff secret. Bumping his head against the problem. He works for the compitive enterprise institute, a think tank that like to keep it up and governments. They dont like to snooping around in government when you ask questions. They dont get the joke any longer. John youfile a freedom of information requests. Why . We have a legal right to inspect public records. Their public. Im paying for this microphone. Were paying for all of this government. The progressives got one right. We have a need for these things. John and that is why there is the freedom of affirmation that passed during the vietam war because congress was upset that Lyndon Johnson was keeping secrets. It allows anyone get even than non citizen to demand correspondents documents, and the government can refuse only if it can show the National Security issue or just an irrelevant private matter. All records are present hrs because we are the employer. There are nine. Personal, private, National Security, the geologic formations. Commonsense exemptions, but the rest is also common sense. These are our records. We have proven we need to see them. John your book called the liberal warren transparency in the you point out it was the liberals to put these rules in effect. And frankly the boston globe wrote that president bush expanded the number of agencies with authority to classified documents a secret including the epa and he ever pulled department. So the republicans are doing this, not just liberals. We have at least five leftwing groups who are actually more concerned about the transparency that because. Obama is worst in bushes they said was the worst ever or come out right and say obama is the worst ever. The obama administration. John he has rejected more freedom of information act requests than bush. Also posecuted more whistleblowers including as by simply because they blew the whistle onsoftware boondoggles and someone. Obama is the worst threat comes to transparency ever. We know from their behavior is their hiding things that desperately dont want us to seek. Now, john maybe youre a busy body, the political enemy in the dow at youd have this stuff. I dont blame them. Im paying for the microphone. I didnt ask whether they wanted me to see it these in my records unless the burden is on them and they can provide cant. What theyre doing is telling us things that arent true, finding it increasingly according to their emails. John the emails told us about solyndra and the people who gave money who were getting it back. You wanted it, needed it, they dont want us to see whats going on until a carbon tax is enacted, for example. John the apartment of justice was running an activist website, real climate. Were all going to die from Global Warming. A government office. Nasa was doing that and doj filed an affidavit admitting to. Ssaid i would like to see what youre doing a my time because they erased all the day stamps showing theyre dointhis from the office. They submitted an ffidavit fileby the Department O Justice who shrug their shoulders and walked on. We have an elaborate Document Destruction under way in violation of the criminal code ich is why we are giving you these records. John now trickier, they use fake names. The head of the epa, using a governme account under the fake name richard windsor. He is her dog wind a fake name . John the epa said it created the dresses she would have an emailddress that would not be flooded with the mil from the public. John wide a fake name. Why dont you want people john tortured. To get anything done you have to have some private conversations, tests, ideas. There is an exemption for that. You dont have to create a fake name. John president obama was very specific about how the public should know what the government is doing. Heres a clip. Is a bill that ends up on my desk as president. You, the public, have five days to look on line and find out what is in the before i sign it. John again, lots of applause which seems pretty simple. Five days its pretty good. Yet he broke it. The first deal he signed. It was too much. The hallmark, yu know where they struck those deals with the Drug Companies . On aol. Private servers run out of the white house to hide from us. They are not that into transparency. John thank you for trying to help us find out whats going on. Coming up, how Technology Makes it easier for citizens journalists, people like you to expose treachery in government. Put yourself was up in the air. [ male announcer ] how do you turn an entrepreneurs dream. Into a scooter that talks to the cloud . Or turn 30million artifacts. Into a hightech masterpiece . Whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. [beep] [indistinct chatter] [kids talking at once] [speakin foreign language] [heart beating] [heartbeat continues] [faint singing] [heartbeat, music playing louder] im feeling better since you know me i was a lonely soul, but thats the old me. Announcer this song was created with heartbeats of children in need. Find out how it can help Frontline Health workers bring hope to millions of children at everybeatmatters. Org. We are a citizen journalism army, and we are going to take this country back. Thank you vy much. John thats a scene from a new documentary about citizen journalism. He died shortly after that speech, but t ideas he expressed live on. No longer do we have to rely on the pompous leftwing coup was from abc, cbs, nbc, pbs. We have choices. You just expect this, but what he called citizens journalism is a new freedom to. Zero idea. To explain, lets go to the experts. He now all by himself gets more readers than many newspapers used to. Were als joined by a group produced that movie entitled hating breitbart. Why did you call it hating breitbart . One of the things that we found interesting was the level of venom directed toward him. A lot of people who are in the opinion revenues will get that. He actually seeme to really gain energy from the things that were directed at them. John you did not mind being paid. I think he loved it. I think he loved being hated as much as 11 people agreeing with him. He left the back and forth the idea so much that he drew energy from it whether or not someone agree with them are not. I think he definitely gained energy. John and he thrived by reporting things that the Mainstream Media was just skipping and the biggest example is the acorn story. You were part of the beginning. Dogooders, helping poor people. It turned out they weresleazy and maybe engaging in voter fraud. Then came this pen pe prostitute. Utility. Speaking with james okeefe about a video he had done. And at A Maura Flynn at the end of the conversation i asd him, so, what are you working on now. He began to describe the acorn videos that he and anna were working on. I couldnt believe what i was hearing. I thought, well, is this kid has what he says he has this is huge i asked him what his plan was for releasing these videos, and he said, he had approached the networks and released in that way. I strongly recommended that he not do that. John so he went to breitbart to release them gradually. They were encouraging teen prostitution, tax evasion, encouraging people like t the government. The Mainstream Media still smeared at this. A columnist at the columbia urnalism review said okeefe and giles do not seem to take a jourlistic approach. The conservative activist. And in your film breitbart answers. Journalism school, yet i ppen t believe they are the best journalts and ever me across in my entire life. John all right. Hyperbole aside. This is what is new to people. Going around the Mainstream Media. Telling people what they need to know. That is what he did. That is not what most establishment journalists seem to want to do. They want to peddle the narrative of the date. Its usually one that is politically favorable to the Democratic Party or at least the establishment in general. Which was at the time, just ce to my good people. We dont want to touch this icky stuff. More than sympathetic. I lieve the Traditional Press was protective. And as andrew released the story that proved to be the case. John they still did not coverage, and congress be funded acorn before that New York Times and Washington Post reporter on a. Thats exactly right. The senate moved to defund. The census severed all its ties. That was all before the New York Times or the Washington Post had written a column. John another widely reported piece of propaganda that was debunked by the cell phone cameras that breitbart talked about was the claim from some u. S. Congressman the racist the Party Members screamed and fought in the inward. So he asked tea Party Members, send us what is on your cell ones. That is the video we found. Looking down as theyre walking down the stairs, from the bottom of the steps watching. We have a video. Of course we have the video with a step off. And then we have video from across the street even. John he offered 100,000 for anyone who could show someone screaming the inword. I dont think we have never seen anything where you have videos being taken from youtube to piece together a story to be told this way. I think that that is another si that we are in a new media environment. Its not just that one person can go out and found something with a camera. A hundred people have done that, you can go and find those things and put them together. This is actually what happened. All these disparate pieces. Johnthank goodness since we are all journalists. Thank god we have bauxite years. You have these ubiquitous tools for gathering information like smart phones and video cameras. Then you have these platforms for distributing mike youtube and twitter. Then you have blocks and other sites. They can pull it all together and give you a picture of whats going on from a lot of diferent sides and let readers make up their own mind. Its not like th Mainstream Media are still very powerful. Theyre just not as powerful a they used to be in no longer controlled and there is completely. To me it makes me wonder what historical events would have looked like if we had a bunch of cameras from different angles. John when you started, you were a hotshot lawyer. You could have had a big deal legal career, and you gave it up to do this thing called blocking, which is near death when i first heard about it. Now all by yourself you get 6 million hits. Pretty decent for a oneman operation. John one of the stories citizen journalists broke, dan rather and george brush. Cbs had a big scoop that dan rather bought out, and it was supposed to be memos from george w. Bushs time in that Texas International garda suggested he was away wthout leave. John used in tustin not serve. Thats basically the gist of it. Kind of familiar, and omeone typed in and said the fal settings of microsoft word and it looked exactly the same. I dont think they had microsoft word back in 1970s. The fund did not exist. It was fake. Embarrassed. Unbelieving and being exiled to wherever the hell he is now. Pretty much a major blow to what i think ten years earlier would have been an area of adelle attraction. John with that merited bush might not have been elected. And monitor lewinsky likewise. Newsweek had it but would not run it. Thats right. It was spiked. The story leaked, but that was enough to break loose and get out there. They could not to the gate keeping any more. I look at these comparisons. Getting huge numbers of viers. And here, youre successful. 90 million, and the 25 million. Garretts 6 million. Town hall which carries all of these columnists, including my column just its 4 million. How do you get ix . I have no idea. I think i am a boring guy. Its amazing when you think that not very long ago if you wanted to challenge the integrity of the Traditional Press the only way you could do was to write a letter to the editor. Which we ignored. Or submit an oped. Hope that your letter might be run. I dont think so much power has ever been transferred from so few people to so many ordinary people almost all the world almo overnight. John all part of freedom 2. 0. Thank you. And coming up, want to buy something the government does not want you to buy . And new onine currency makes that easier. Is that a problem or a good thing . Thats next as we return with more of freedom 2. 0. Droid dna augmentation initiated. Vision expanding to a 5inch 1080p hd display and camera. Touch acquiring nfc. 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They do actuall, but reason magazine says on balance that is a good thing. A good thing . Why . The first thing you have to keep in mind is that they are no more suspicio or anonymous than cash. Already people use cash all the time to buy the legal and analysis of the dont want their wife to know about. A lot of room for transactions that we might not want a permanent record of. Right now cash, but now we have bitcoin. John who needs digital cash . Im sure you know and certainly i have stopped going to Stores Almost completely. Id buy everything online. For some people everything includes drugs or guns or whatever it is their wont and it would like to be able to buy an online anonymously. John originally paypall was supposed to do this. This was the dream, but it would be a currency and outside of government. There was a Central Place that could be shut down. You could go to the servers and say were going to climb down on this. This is different. Stored on lots of different computers, a diffuse peer to peer. There is no one place you can go and say now the government knows what your doing whereas you could with paypall. When it came to a terrorism, money laundering, drugs, it turn out to be easy tohut that down. John but not bitcoin which makes it sound like it will make it easier for terrorists. That is a possible very small side effect, but i think the much more important factr here is that what it can do in theory is protect people from heir own government. Right now the Federal Reserve can make money less valuable, the money that you have the you learn just by devaluing the currcy. In theory what they do is take that pow away from the government and give it to individuals. You can put your money where everyone. John that technically is illegal as well because in not allowed add this to been reasoned alternative currency. But a basic part of freedom. They allow that, but here is the part that freaks people out. This silk road website where people spend. They sell all kinds of nasty stuff. Heroin, cocaine. Is just like any other online retailer. They have user reviews, so you can no his ripping you off into selling you did. The fact is that anything that kind of normalizes even black markets i think is ultimately a force for good. People dont get dangerous products is often, get ripped off. Theyre still vulnerability. If you bite of lunch they have to send this summer. John seve address. With the fact is that most of the trsactions that are happening have incredibly high user ratings. People like this. They want it. They want to buy these things. Just because they dont want a paper trail, it is in a sign of doing something wrong. John and silk re was named ter the silk road that used to trade silk from china, the west gave them wind, oil, and cold. In the original silk road was an incredible force for progre. This is one of the very early instances of globalization. Spices that were impossible to get in europe and the way back from asia and other things with the other direction. Tnt a dead the silk road is somehow bad just because its anonymous is misguided. John that lets people evade taxes. Well, i guess my response would be amen. John we need taxes to pay for what government should do. Ultimately the responsibility to pay for taxes resigns with the individual. We dt blame the retailer if you dont play your taxes. We dont blame your employer if you choose not to pay your income taxes. Its an individual case. Other not as an online site that facilitates purchases without taxes not theyre fault. John and bitcoin is used not just to buy drugs, people use it to by pouring. Adelle want someone to see the paper trail. Online gambling which is to believe illegal. Even for transactions that arent illegal now but might sometimes be in the future like buying a gun. I think its really reasonable for lots of kinds of purchases which are not totally illega you might not want to leave a record of that. Guns are a great example. Later on somebody might go on like a sales records and follow up and come take aun went. John my senator who is against everything thats good is trying to ban bitcoin. W frustring it is that you cant stop this new currency. Unbelievable. Its all hidden because they dont use dollars. They use this surrogate currency john he also wants to ban guns, caffeine sprays, highfrequency trading. They cant ban it because they cannot get their hands on it really. Sites that allow you to do these kinds of transactions anonymously increase the power of the individual, decrease the power of government. They take some of the control away from people like Chuck Schumer and give it to you and me. Of course the eighth that. John of course thats a good thing. Thank you. Coming up, robots keep getting better. Soon there will be smarter. What does that mean for freedom . Lead paint poisoning affects one million children today. If youre pregnant or have Young Children and your home was built before 1978, you could be at risk. Learn how to protect your family. To find your homes danger zones, the health effects, or just to find help, log on to leadfreekids. Org. John technology has made us richer, given us more choices, but what is next . Smarter robots for one thing. Last year robot called once and watson crushed him in competition in the quiz show. Okay. A computer can win in jeopardy. Economics professor jim miller says will will come next is much more interesting. Computers are getting smarter and smarter and eventually there wi be able to do everything we can. John you dont know that. We have special skills. Readjust machines, and we are machines, our brains run on me. We know its possible to build machines much smarter than our brains. John computer power keeps doubling. The amount of computer power keeps doubling. Twenty doublings is about a million fold increase. We have a computer as fast as a human brain from and 20 years will be a million times faster and we all be obsolete. John the first that maybe the computers will make their own computers. If we had computer smarter than people making computers thes water in them and as they get smarter and better making smarter things we can ha an explosion and go from computers being a bit smarter than us. John the fear then is that companies will hire people. The purpose of work is to get stuff to consume. It will be great to live in an economy which robusta all the work, there were nice, and we get to enjoy the fruits of the labor. John thats one possibility. You have others. Unfortunately these machines would not ne us. In my tree just the way we treat chimpanzees. Perfectly happy it take a step on leave for dead. John will merge with the machines. Put computers in our brains. Theyre getting smaller and faster. If we put computers john we already hae their place of body parts. Exactly. If we can start augmenting brains we will get smarter, be much more productive and become very rich. Of the stars to happen criticism, this will be this will exacerbate inequality. The rich will merge more quickly that is possible, but i think the other outcome is more likely. If you looked at cell phones, e ridge where the first to mothers now for farmers in bangladesh to have them. A lot of this technology will be the kind which is really expensive to develop but once you develop it will cost that much to make extra copies. The poor might end up getting this of only a few years after the ridge to. John what do we do to prepare . One way as an individual you can prepare is to think how you can continue to be a productive and play in a world in which computers could continue smarter eventually will be helpless, but along the way there will be a lot of stuff that people can do and computers cant. If youcan figure that out in your profession and the will to make a lot of money. John also pssible if we merged the we wl live much longer. And thats the upside. If we have medical resrch ing done by super Smart Computers and they like us, they can extendur lifetime indefinitely. John what do you mean come if they like us . Out as a machine like us. It runs on software, and people will writehe software. If we get right the machines will have objectives. Be nice to people in the things they care about verses the alternatives, the matrix with a takeover. Except as unrealistic because it would need is around for any reason. John how much time do we have . Well, i would say at a minimum probably at least ten years. Almost certainly this century. I would give about 2045 is the best estimate for women live computers the sartest people. John of find what you say possible, but i look back at all predictions, 1924 article. The ying automobile, the car of the future. As recently as 1979 that predicted the olympics to be on th moon by the year 2020. It could be totally off about this stuff its certainly possible, but there are so many different ways of achieving intelligence enhancements and such tremendous military and economic benefitsts to doing that that think its likely we will. The kid had the olympics onthe men by now of really wanted to. John on that note, thank you. Coming up, my take on freedom this is 100,000. We asked total strangers to watch it for us. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Ill be right back. They didnt take a dime. How much in fees does your bank take to watch your money . If your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. Ally bank. Your money needs an ally. [beep] [indistinct chatter] [kids talking at once] [speaking foreign language] [heart beating] [heartbeat continues] [faint singing] [heartbeat, music playing louder] im feeling better since you know me i was a lonely soul, but thats the old me. Announcer this song was created with heartbeats of children in need. Find out how it can help Frontline Health workers bring hope to millions of children at everybeatmatters. Org. John at the start of the new year as they think about the future it seems bleak. Politicians put us deeper into debt. They regulate endlessly. Dont do this. Do that. Freedom decreases with each lot and they pass more. I say this is why our future is bleak. , top of that new tecnology may give government more power. Wireless communications. Who drones make it easier to kill people. Better cameras can llow the government to spy on us. New york city will soon have 3,000. Then make us safer of the London Police use it to spy on women in their apartment. It is scary someday robots could become so quicker smart to decide who needs humans and kill us. That this is Science Fiction for now but many researchers think it could happen. But. Thomas said it is obvious the population will outpace the food supply and starvation, famine is inevitable. That was 1789. Then the darling of the left predicted pollution and Global Warming saying i would take many england will not exist by the year 2000. That was in the 70s. England is still there. Thinks to technology there is less pollution in industrialized countries today. But the media continues to make scary predictions. Our kids to wired for their own good . Newsweek warns of a panic, a depression, a psychosis. Scarmuggers are always wrong. They make us wealthier and healthier and freedom 2. 0 that means new ways to use the internet like with the pds, face book