Distinguished professor of history at North Carolina university. Hes the author of six bucks, editor of four. Others his latest book in the reason that we are here this evening is ulysses s. Grant, the buck will be available for sale and signing outside of the conference room. Hes the founder and society of the his story guilt in this era, hes held several research grants, we are thrilled to have him here tonight, and of the year all in for a great presentation. Thank you on behalf of the smithsonian for joining us. We welcome you to the stage. Good evening. Thank you very much elizabeth for that introduction. As all of this with said, i have spoken here, before my wife and i have attended many all the events here. I find a lot of these audiences are intelligent, curious, enthusiastic, and have Attention Spans of more than 140 characters. Speaking of technology this is actually the first presentation ive given with powerpoint, i know what shocked you but it happens to be true. So any g
Blow you off and keep going. He lives in his own world. I think people take his aloofness for rudeness which is not that at all. He used to be a darius outgoing guy and then had a traumatic brain brain injury and it changed his body. I think its evolved and you see in the fall and that my wife is funny, she read this book and she said i finally like him. He reached his humanity level. At the core. It took me four books to get there but i like complicated guys and hes complicated. Host thank you for being with us for our indepth program and in this special series we sit with authors for three hours talking about their life in their work. David baldacci will spend the time with us today and we hope very much for both of us as we enjoy your interaction that you will be a part of the conversation. As we continue along here we put the phone numbers on the screen and our facebook and twitter handles so you can join in on the conversation and we very much would like to from your questions abo
Block of ellis. This started at 6 30 this morning a couple of blocks from here at jones and ofarrell. According to officers, they made contact officer fired his gun because the man was armed and threat with a knife according to a Public Safety officer on the scene here. A command center is set up where we are right now. One employee says he and his coworkers heard sirens and watched police arriving on the scene. They took to social media to find out what was happening. We saw there was an active hodge situati hostage situation. We continued to see s. W. A. T. Cars and all sorts of craziness here on an otherwise pretty quiet day. Reporter to be clear, this is not a hostage situation, but a standoff with a man barricaded inside glide methodist church. No one else is in the room with that man, according to the Public Information officer. He said theres no evidence the suspect was wounded when the officer fired a shot. No one else was hurt either. There are a lot of homeless encampments in
So apple will capitulate on privacy in china. In ways that it would not dream of doing in the us. It is certainly subject to political pressure, differences in ways Different Companies regulated and will not fight beijing on these things. There are a couple other problems with apple that overlap problems with google and facebook. One is in terms of who gets what part of the innovation pie. One of the arguments when regulators say these companies are too big, we need to bring them to heal, make him smaller, break them up, they say this is a battle between regulation and innovation. I would argue these companies, apple is foremost among them, are implementers, not innovators. They are implementers of pretty much other peoples technology. You can see this playing out, there is a great story and headlines, the google battle and so now has a the to pick with a small innovator, a guy came up with a way to make smart speakers, very innovative company, came up a lot of technologies adapted by
Less attainabletoday the later , Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof and sheryl wu dont report on the issues facing the working class in rural america. An enjoyable tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Great to sit down with you and your book, dont be evil is contained plenty on a timely subject given the political times we are in , given the heights that the stocks of apple, amazon, google and facebook and others have reached but you normally have a pretty broad scope to your coverage. Why is this book, why now mark. At you for having me by the way. I started this book i guess it was in 2017. And i had just taken a job as a columnist for the Financial Times and my mandate was to figure out are the worlds biggest business and economic stories and cover them in opinion form is a rather large mandate and in order for the to narrow the funnel i started looking through wealth figures and i thought i saw an amazing numbers in terms of how well to transition to the technolog