To not be the enabler and to also come forward . Its crucial. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Thank you for being here today to talk about a very important topic. We are going through a major sea change as a society, and i think that it hasnt been discussed yet. And so were going to start that conversation today by talking about the future. For all of humankinds history, weve been fascinated with the future. Weve wanted to know whats going to happen. Weve consulted astrologists and prophets and seers, rulers have called them in to find out how many offspring theyre going to have, whether theyre going to win wars. And it turns out that theres a reason that were fascinated with the future. And that reason is because theres no greater advantage than knowledge about whats going to happen. Not in nature, not in business and not in governance. If we can know what the futures going to be, then we can avoid danger, potentially lifethreatening danger. We can also ge
Thank you for being here today to talk about a very important topic. We are going through a major change each as a society, and i think that it hasnt been discussed yet so we are going to start a conversation today by talking about the future. For all of humankinds history weve been fascinated with the future and wanted to know whats going to happen. Whether they are going to win the war and as it turns out theres a reasothere is a reasoe fascinated with this and its because there is no greater advantage than knowledge about what is going to happen. Not nature, government or business. Then we can avoid being sure, potentially lifethreatening danger and get a jump on opportunity and if we cannot do either of those things at the very least, we can prepare. For the future it means survival. It means a huge advantage over everyone else. And it has become such a central theme in literature and art and such a pursuit of humanity that we owe it to ourselves to try to look at how Technology Ma
For the force awakens was released last night, there a is a look we will talk to a top analyst about the impact the new movie could have on this stock. We may or may not play the entire trailer. You are going to have to stay tuned. Several times. Also yahoo is about to report its earnings after the bell tonight, the stock down more than 30 this year. We will tell you the key numbers to watch for when that report hits the wires coming up next hour. And man who plays former apple ceo john scully in the latest steve jobs movie, jeff daniels will join us live at the New York Stock Exchange to talk about that role and whether will mcilroy was loosely based on bill griffeth. So many similarities. Will ferrells role was more like me. Im ron burgundy. We digress. We if i know with the news on yum brands spinning off its china business. Jane wells has details on that. Investors not quite as happy about it now as they were earlier today but still happy. Boy, that was fast. One week after adding
She got sick again. When i went to visit her, she looked beautiful that day. Her head was shaved. She could not move but she had me put postits on every piece of furniture in the house and where they would go. She was part of the decision of what happened to her all the way through. You are robbed of being able to be part of what they do and when its time to say enough is enough. And if you are not offended by that, it is time that we all got offended together, but i stood by her. Cancer didnt run in my family. We need people who are not touched personally. If people sitting next to you a neighbor or you have someone that you feel so badly for, be their advocate. The care gave is the advocate on the front lines at the Doctors Office in the hospital, with the health insurers. Were wearing out. We need our kids. To be angry for us. If you look ahead, you see they say their future. We are robbing them of their future. So that to me is a huge issue. Join with us. I mean, i would really i h
Huge amounts of material. The newspapers, the source material is incredibly rich so that means if you want to get into it although its rich its not overwhelming. One problem with American History and why would never go into this are beyond 1775 when you get in the period of the revolution itself beyond that in the 19th century the source material becomes overwhelming especially through the war which is a lifetimes work in and of itself. In this particular come in britain you feel like a perimeter around it and you can get to grips with these people not the least because the decisionmaking is done by rather small group. Its not going to overwhelm you and the material is not going to becomes overwhelming but thats essentially my point is to reinvest myself in the primary material. [applause] a collection of her wide range of projects which includes the Vietnam Veterans memorial in washington d. C. This hourlong program is next on booktv. Cspan maya lin, what is boundaries about . Guest b