And those that are this week the lunch of Kristen Franklin and on wednesday of the discussion and the time of coronavirus and on thursday a week from today with the money perry. And those to have technical issues that you may want to try this video will be recorded on the Youtube Channel so please post questions on the live video feed. The pandemic is a portal some responses from covid19 and with those borders and now with the message total surveillance but as we try to imagine in a different world there was no one i would rather hear from as the cofounder of Many Organizations including the california prison moratorium project and essential Environmental Justice network for those Environmental Sciences and doctor gilmore is the author it is a brilliant study and with the antistate state that government can or should with the social wellbeing and those with Christina Heather ten and her new book change everything, everything, thank you so much. Thank you for having me. With covid19 so
Travis colin, im a bookseller here and in charge of the exhibitions club lets get to some quick housekeeping and we can jump right in. Im going to takea quick second to remindeveryone to silence your cell phone. Ndwe are also recording video and audio. So lets just get into it. Also when it comes time for the q a portion, we have a standing mike right here. Again at the aisle, we you speak clearly and you keep your question to aquestion. And then following everything , we have all the books on sale behind the Cash Register at the front of the store. So if you just want to get up and get those come back we would be more than happy to p sign and then we just askthat you keep your chairs inplace. We will have another talk after this and we greatly appreciate. But and also, we have as many of you know we both a lot of events this year or every year really. And joining us, if you need any help keeping track, we have the calendars at the info desk and also just checked your website. We updat
As regular viewers of booktv now, all of the major book festivals this spring have been canceled due to the coronavirus. Booktv was scheduled to be live in tucson and los angeles, new orleans and san antonio as well, all cancels. We know the effect it is having on book fairs and large gatherings but is it having an effect also on bookstores and smaller businesses. Mitchell kaplan runs bookstores in coral gables, florida called books and books. Has coronavirus affected your business . Yes, unfortunately, it has. We have been holding on as long as we could but it looks like starting tomorrow, we are going to be closing down all six stores in the miami area and trying to move our sales online and encourage people to buy at our website. This is happening i believe across the country with independent bookstores everywhere. Like normally happens independent bookstores are representative of what is happening with Small Business so there are many thousands upon thousands of Small Business peop
Historic mission. As all of you know we were founded by 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had a vision in such a young age as first lady to create an organization to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house but also an Education Mission to teach and to tell stories of the white house and history going back to 1792 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired the young irish architect james hogan to build the white house. Well, creating educational materials and content is a core part of our mission and thats what we do every day through the wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we host at the Decatur House and around the country and online social media content and website content and this is an example of that. We are doing more and more of this during this time when we are all at home looking for interesting things to do. I would encourage you to chec
Food and that have the relationships of universities and it doesnt mean there arent other Companies Like salesforce or huber that are doing Amazing Things for through these Nine Companies the entire ecosystem touches them in addition to all the things i just mentioned they are building the framework and the silicone chips. All roads lead to these Nine Companies on the challenge that i have is the case the Artificial Intelligence is not just bill to create better microwave although that school to optimize our lives using data as current see what does it mean when we relegate that to a handful of companies and those working at these companies . That dont look like us and dont have the same worldviews as us what are the longerterm downstream implications . Three of those companies are in china. They are publicly traded companies but have lived in china and anybody who watches china knows that publicly traded companies are still under the thumb of beijing so there is no escape if you are a