Good afternoon and welcome to the final presentation of the day. Im happy to welcome you to the 13th annual savanna book festival. Presented by georgia power, bob, david and nancy and the philip and nancy be foundation. They are especially grateful to jack, our sponsors for this beautiful venue. Quick housekeeping notes that youve probably heard multiple times today, first, signing copies of her book immediately following her presentation. Please turn off your cell phones so they dont disrupt the presentation. We also ask that you not use flash photography. Later, as you ask at the venue, he will seek volunteers with yellow buckets and they will happily take your donations to the savanna book festival. Please help us to continue sharing the love of books with the public. Well have the opportunity for questions and answers at the end of the talk. Please come to the microphone at the center aisle to ask your question. Michelle solomon is with us today, courtesy of jim and christina and r
Together stronger. A catalyst for shared prosperity that unites businesses, nonprofits, government and citizens to combine their strength to alleviate poverty for millions of people worldwide. Please give a warm welcome to michelle sullivan. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you to savanna book festival for the fabulous event. My first time here, i absolutely love it. Ill definitely return. I also love the weather. When i left home yesterday, it was minus eight in illinois. I deeply appreciate the 60 some degrees weather today. [laughter] i also thank you for your time today. Take it home and treated like its everybody else. Thats advice that my parents said five decades ago. The day i was born. This is after he discovered i had a type of dwarfism which a few years later, they found out was a very rare type of dwarfism. I like to think my parents would have done that anyway, take me home and treat me like everybody else but the affirmation is always nice. You may not think that was a
I am the cofounder we have a podcast and the other connection that brings you here today so what im very glad to do and to talk about who is here. So an awardwinning journalist previously the head of one of the world leading design complications but is very much a practitioner and working hard at it for a very long time. That what youd dont know was of the leading industrial and the awardwinning cofounder the book is called userfriendly and the way we try to make everything easy with software and may be as a side effect it is friction free to make people less powerful. So i will remark there are books for sale im glad you drink the beer that is provided for you you may consider how that works but with that. [applause] okay this should be fine. So to have an overview of the book with the dark of whats in there so this started six years ago approaching me with a few questions about why and how did we get here this has become it is around us every minute we are awake. To have no account o
Out on tuesday. This is about a topic which is relevant and important but as the authors discussed under studied and underemphasized. I dont want to waste too much time with a big long intro but i will have an intro to highlight the work of luna next to me whos been doing really fantastic reporting for the wall street journal and im going to quote from one of her stories this year because it sets us up nicely. A piece coauthored with him, they are increasingly recruiting intelligent officers as a campaign to shake loose government secrets, current and u. S. Officials say china has grown older and more successful in traditional spy cams including targeting less conventional recruits and she quote the infamous statement by crystal ray, the fbi that no country poses a threat than china. They are doing it through chinese Intelligence Services, through extensively private companies, through graduate students and researchers all working on behalf of china and finally, this is one of my favor
All eyes tonight with more on the search and michelle i assume the heartbreak as well. Absolutely heartbreaking today that plane took off. The supposed to take off a couple days ago, but because of weather they had to cancel it. It flew over the bay area today of course the goal to get jackson home. Up up and away plane flying a banner across the bay area on friday alerting people to head to bring jackson home dot com. A website with information about a missing 5 yearold miniature australian shepherd who went missing on saturday in the Bernal Heights neighborhood help with land that plane is that people look up and i like what is that and then they go to the website and get eyes on whats happening keep an eye out for me emily to wear mo jacksons owner is also on foot his name jackson jackson, handing out thousands of fliers searching for a home surveillance cameras that might have caught the moments after jackson went thank you so much emily tie jackson to a bench outside the good life