Only one. For a while i didnt think i was going to make it. Thank you all for coming. And again thank you to politics and prose for having me. One of kind of a standard tropes of publishing the book is that you have to answer the question why did you write about this topic in the first place. And you are supposed to a thoughtful answer about how youve had a lifelong interest in this topic and youve always dreamed about exploring it more deeply. In fact, this topic was supposed to be by my publisher. I have had a lifelong interest in china, almost a lifelong interest, having studied it studied chinese going back many many years and having lived there for a few years as the Time Magazine correspondent their, and traveled to there. Even today i go almost every year. But it was my publisher actually. I finished my previous book and he asked me to pick a year and write a book about in china. And so started looking through years, and i thought about 1938. Thats a very interesting year in chi
Technology anymore to make a television . Guest yes. Well, most televisions right now are computers. I mean, there are tvs in this booth that are ten cores processers, and all the integrated functionality for the web, streaming stuff. 4k is a huge thing, so those are the big buzzword 4g and old sets. Host i see behind us it says 8k. Guest yeah, were already beyond 4k now. These are basically, prototypes. Theres one sharp tv of thats coming out thats going to be simulated 8k, but what were talking about is stepped up in resolution. You think about it as the jump from standard testify in addition to High Definition this is four times the resolution of High Definition. So its Crystal Clear, its sort of the next wave, and this is the first year more and more people might start buying 4k tvs. Host mr. Moynihan, a couple of years ago 3d tv was the big talk. Guest yeah. Host but that doesnt seem to have gone anywhere. Guest it did not. A lot of 3d tvs were sold because most tvs have 3d featur
We are advantage evangelists on behalf of the study of history. And one of our judges in a conversation today began talking about a High School Teacher he had had when he was 14 or 15 years old. And that teacher, and teachers of adolescents are the Unsung Heroes and heroines of our profession. Thats when you plant an abiding, lifelong affection and even addiction to history. One to have historical muses has been sadly, neglected in the American Academy the american university, for a generation. And one of the ideas of our founders, one of whom i will introduce to you in a moment was that something that the h. F. Guggenheim family could go to arrest could do to arrest this malady and reverse it, is support an annual prize for the best work of military history in english during the preceding year. Finish and that is why we are here this evening. History, as written by practitioners of it who have produced works that indicate enlightened research, who write gracefully, who have in the bac
Your television provider. Host and the name of the book is the end of bic, how the internet makes david the new goliath. The author is nicco mele, and he joins us from boston. Before we get into the substance of your book, if you could, relate your personal experience to the book, the end of big. Guest sure. I started my life as a Computer Programmer and ended up at the intersection of technology and politics. In 2003 i joined howard deans president ial primary campaign. I joined it very early, in late april of 2003, and was on the campaign for almost exactly 12 months from the early days to the very bitter end. And my experience as a working for an insurgent candidate led me to think a lot about the role of technology in empowering insurgence against the establishment. And so its really kind of where my book started, you know . In 2007, in early 2008 we watched the astonishing democratic primary where Hillary Clinton who was the partys standard bearer, indeed, she and bill clinton rea
Good afternoon. We begin with shutdown, day two, digging in. And in the hunt for a better october, it appears that this may be developing into an even bigger cataclysmic standoff, unless republicans give up their reckless approach to governing. In just over an hour, the president will host leaders of the house and senate it at the white house, where according to his advisers, the president will urge the hapless House Speaker to pass a clean bill to reopen government and raise the debt ceiling. In other words, do your job, pay the bills, grow up. The president will probably put it a bit more diplomatically, and well have fresh comments from him, straight ahead. From his interview this afternoon with cnbcs john harwood. But its unclear how willing the speaker is to listen to reason. Senator harry reid says he had a candid conversation with mr. Boehner, just this afternoon. My message to him was very simple. We have to stop playing these foolish games that keep coming to us from the other