Species. What do you mean by 3. 0 . Guest well, i guess theres a couple ways to look at it. When i first started the book, i talked to anthropologists and got a sense of what stage of evolution we were in scientifically, and theres not really agreement there. Some of them are saying we could be considered humans 4. 0 actually. But where i kind of starts from was the earliest humans were the ones that were largely subjugated by nature. Natures perceived and then we involve, of course, through technology. Technology played a major role. I think for the last 200,000 years or so we have been humans 2. 0 and thats more of a case of humans living in relative harmony with nature. You know, it hasnt kicked our butt basically completely. Humans 3. 0, i think is where anthropologists call it the [inaudible] and thats where humans are starting to affect nature, master nature both in the sense of the environment and our own biology through technology. And theres debate over when that started. Some
And surcharging Medicare Coverage for smokers and the obese. You can watch this and other q a interviews all this week at 7 p. M. Eastern here on cing span 3. Cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your its provider by your television provider. Host and this week on the communicators, gordon smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters, our guest reporter is paul kirby of telecommunications report. Senator smith, you started at nab nearly four years ago. How have the issues changed in those four years . Guest well, it seems like the issues just keep on coming, and they tend to be very major issues affecting both radio and television. But clearly on the radio side, the whole issue of performance rights, performance tax, whatever you want to tribe it as, is an ongoing challenge. Hopefully, the day will arrive when both the digital and the terrestrial platform can come up with a model that actually gr