Spinning off like particles, but having an unfortunately galvanizing force for economic and political and social instability in many more parts of the world. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much, professor shelley. We now from the carnegie endowment, they have a central subject of the book is the role of corruption, how corruption is an enabler, facilitator, and you cannot really understand transnational crime without paying attention to the broader issue of corruption. You have been studying corruption in detail in india and elsewhere. What are your reactions to some of those points that professor shelley raises . Sure. Thanks, everyone, for coming. I first want to thank moises for asking me to comment on this wonderful book, you know . The book is about terrorism, organized crime of which i know nothing about, and only under generous definition do i know anything about corruption, so thank you for including me. I want to make a couple of points on the question that you raised ab
That were ever taken, new york 1867, the winter of 186768 which was his second final reading tour of the united states. [inaudible] how did the library get the dickens materials a . Well, the Performance Company came to the berg collection through the purchase of the greatest collections of english and American Literature in private hands in the 20th century. This was back in 194041. One was a great Book Publishing magnate from cincinnati, and a friend of the irish renaissance. A real friend of literature. He had some of his performance copies, including the other great collector who was man of the year, 1929. Founder of the general electric, rca, rather. On more i do want to mention one thing. This belonged to dickens. Here is his pen which you may want to hold. Thats his ink well. This is his ivory letter opener which was given to him by his sisterinlaw, georgina, and she had inscribed, or engraved, in gothic letters, in memory of bob, 1862. This is one of the forepaws of his cat, re
It still says in 20 years theyl bring us Artificial Intelligence. Theres a wonderful guy in my book who ill get to in a moment. Lickliter said maybe so, but in the meantime, why dont we connect ourselves more closely to our machines, because thats going to be more useful. So in all the data points we have of the 60 years or so of the digital revolution has been that the combination that ada envisioned of the technology of humans and machines has always proved more fruitful than the class of pure Artificial Intelligence. Now, alan tourings own life, in some ways, is tragic, heroic and somewhat of a reminder that maybe we arent machines. After he does the imitation game, he debates it with people. People keep saying, you know, you have to have consciousness, you have to have impulses, you have to have sexual desires to be human whereas a machine wouldnt do that. He went kind of silence during those parts of the bbc debates because at that time he was engaged in the activity when the deba
And they provide miami dade colleges to the community. Host you have a full day ahead of the. We appreciate you stopping by. Guest thank you for being here. Abyss the day for you host we have moved inside the bus where were joined by john dean whose most recent book is called the nixon defense what he knew and when he knew it. Mr. Dean, how and when kid you become richard did you become Richard Nixons counsel . Guest peter, john please. [laughter] anyway, july of 1970 when i was 31 years of age, i became white house counsel. I wasnt a part of the nixon entourage, i hadnt been in the campaign. I had been in washington quite a while, id worked as the chief minority counsel of the house judiciary committee, id gone on from there, id been an associate Deputy Attorney general. Thats where i joined the nixon administration. While at justice i had a lot of dealings with the white house staff, and so when John Ehrlichman became assistant to the president for domestic affairs, that chair sat em
Compromised, these have become two of the polarities that structure the very leftright order of battle in american political life as much as the debate over the role of government, led by Barry Goldwater, and the cultural war between mutually recriminating cultural sophisticates on the one hand and the plain or silent majority on the other that i labeled in my previous book nixon land. Note well that reagans side in this plait call battle of political battle of assets which is carried far above the minutiae of electoral tallies has prevailed. And here is their romney and accepting the nomination in 2012 speaking of the day your son Neil Armstrong land on the moon all americans who went to bet that i knew we had the greatest country in the world many some people would have thought differently but by that formulation theyre not americans. Of googles search yielded 114,000 hits. With such utterances are meant to be an ideological approach always apologizing for america. Of obama goes abro