Most of us, dronie, the latest fads, probably will be old news taken by eric, one of the best drone photographs, only just Getting Started on the drone journey. Lets get going n typical churchill fashion, we will start with chris. I am chris anderson, co of robotibs, the editer of wired magazine for over a decade. How i went from the editer of a magazine to a co of anary Space Company is a story we will probably end up talking about. Back in the media days, i didnt have to run my own factory, now i do. That is the hard part. The fun part, we get to put cameras in the air, and open up imageing and dig data. I am eric chang, director of images. I have a Consumer Science degree, that fell off to my parents dismay, ended up doing underuar photographer, and publishing, recently, i have been sucked back into technology. Here i am. I have been in drone space for ten years, being at m. I t. , then at boeing, then, working on helicopter system, was brief ly an airline pilot. Flying the otter, a
Of adaptations. We took a wall and started writing all over the Different Things on the wall we thought drones were going to be used for. We came up with a lot of the common commercial ones we talked about here. Then we also kind of had a section of the wall where we wanted to come up with some of the things that we hoped and we wanted to see drones really used for. And aerial delivery of medicines. And those are two examples that we have been involved in since. Any other one of the interesting requests we got early days, walmart found us and they asked us if this is something they publicly talk about. They do, they use satellite imagery to figure out how many people go to the stores. But they want to take a step further and find out how many people go to the stores based on their commercials on tv. So being able to map that and correlate that based on i did this ad campaign and 30 people showed up at the store. Globally and regionally, its huge. All the manufacturing plants in china w
Against technology. That was actually we had this conversation a little bit about some of the limits of kind of online activism or some people say hash tag activism. This ability of just masses of people to bring attention to these issues, right, and we talked about how that kind of bubbled up during the whole Malaysian Airlines hysteria where, you know, we all of a sudden started paying attention to these 200 kidnapped girls. The other analog is joseph coney, coney 2012. One of the most Massive Campaign we have seen in terms of online activism and it was all these eyes now focused on the whole premise was lets make coney famous and that will lead to some sort of capture, but still, as you say, coney is still out there, we havent found most of these girls. So there are , as we said, limis to what technology can be, especially if you have people trying to evade. It goes back to the basic human connections. The 200 girls in nigeria will probably be found because someone informs on them a
First book we are discussing here is devoted to education and competing visions of how children learn. Amandas book, the smartest kids in the world and how they got that way takes us to north and poland. Rland, she does this through the eyes of three American Kids learning in those school systems. Analysis r a unique of this. L the Washington Post says is is the most iluminating book ive seen, and the New York Times says this managed to make our culture look strangely new. Trust me, the conclusions have insights for kids of all ages as important parents. Amanda is an investigative journal with the times. Hes also the author of the unthinkable who survives when disaster strikes and why. Please join me in welcoming Amanda Ripley. Thank you. Is great to be here on many levels. One reason is this is the city in which i live. The other reason is i grow most of my articles in the library of congress. It was the only place where i could find some focus and peace. I had a new baby at the time
Network in yemen. The french president has called for a national day of mourning tomorrow. More on the hunt of the suspects. Reporter emergency crews raced to the scene of the frances deadliest terror attack in decades. Masked men with assault rifles went to charliabdeau shouts god is great and calling out the names of their victims. They knew who they were targeting. They killed 12 people before escapes in a car which was later found abandoned. Several witnesses saw the attack as it came down. I was on my balcony. I saw an injured policeman. Reporter the shots came from an automatic weapon and it was quite shocking. It was as if we were in a state of war. Reporter many observed the trackers were well trained and carried out their plan calmly. The french president showed sorrow and resolve during an address. Freedom will always be stronger than barbarism. This is what im encouraging you to do. The unity, unity of all and everybody should be our answer. Reporter earlier at the scene, he