Weapons traitor to Digital Technology has become both a tool and weapon. Its great all kinds of benefits but all kinds of challenges as well and where to grapple with both sides to that equation. Host your book is essentially a world tour that begins in quincy, washington. Why there . Guest my coauthor and i chose quincy because its one of the data center capitals of the world. Its near the columbia river. Data centers are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power that is both cheap and clean. We take the reader on a tour of what is really becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century. These mammoth buildings, more than 20, filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousans of batteries but mostly server computers. Everything we do. Almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud which really means one of these data centers. Host you have 100 of these in 20 countries . Guest more than 20 countries come with an 100 data centers. Microsoft is one of t
Your book is a world tour that begins in quincy washington my coauthor and i chose quincy washington because of the Data Center Capital the world its near the Columbia River are being built there because its close to hydroelectric power that is cheap and clean, we take the reader on a tour of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century, the mammoth buildings, more than 20 of them filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousands of batteries but of course mostly supercomputers, everything that we do, almost every day is actually accessing or storing our data in the cloud which is in one of the data centers. Your 100 of these and 20 countries is that correct. More than 20 countries, more than 100 data centers, microsoft is one of the largest but cavities like google, amazon, facebook, apple were all building more and more of these data centers, its were restoring our data they become among other things the Largest Consumer of electricity in the world. So if i send an em
Governments around the world. Her book is the information trade. Hi, everybody. Thank you for coming. I am the editor of the outlook section of the Washington Post which is our home for ideas and essays and criticism including Nonfiction Book coverage, and im very lucky and you are very lucky to be here tonight with alexis wichowski, who is the author of the information trade, how big tech conquerors, challenges rights and transforms the world. Can you hear me without the microphone . No. Okay. Can you hear me with the microphone . Also, know in the back. Yeah. Alexis wichowski is the deputy y cto of new york city where she runs basically the policy Experiment Lab trying to get the others to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve the social warfare of the citizens of new york. Shes an adjunct professor of the communications of Columbia University and spent a couple of decades studying the issues then as a member of the staff in the un mission, state department, and als
Good evening, [inaudible] [applause] to introduce our speaker for this evening who will tell you, Leeanna Keith teaches history at the Collegiate School for boys in new york city. She is the author of the colfax massacre. [inaudible] [inaudible] please join me in welcoming Leeanna Keith. [applause] thank you everybody. Forgive me for remaining seated. Im going to tell you what happened to me. I know you want to know how i broke my legs. They sideswiped me. I feel very lucky to be here at all. Now im going to tell you a story about the civil war and afterwards all i can remember is on the lady who a [laughter] what can i say, thats my story. Ive been traveling and one thing about my book is theres a lot of local history and their s, stories that happen in different places. This is not where much of the action takes place. Seeing how about how to organize this talk make me recognize a certain pattern to the geography of the civil war and the whole radical movement. Which in my story get
Sanders countered by pointing to his army of the support. If you want to beat trump what you will need is an unprecedented, Grassroots Movement of black and white, and latino, native american and asian people. Sanders also came under fire for past comments, praising social programs in Fidel Castros cuba. We will not win these critical house and senate races if people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the Democratic Party is telling people to look at the bright side of the castro regime. Its different than saying the government occasionally does things that are good. Joe biden is counting on a victory on saturday in south carolinas primary. Based on his support from black voters. Folks, i intend to win south carolina, and i will win the africanamerican vote here. Every single policy area and the United States has gigantic subtext of race. We are talking about education, criminal justice, housing, we are talking about loans. This is also the last debate before super tuesd