Brian Professor Robert j. Gordon, author of the rise and fall of american growth. 750 pages of a lot of statistics. I read this, another problem is that we may be creating too much data. What do you mean by that . Roberts i did not mean creating too much data in the context of big data, and artificial intelligence. Most of that is being used for marketing. Most of the big data that is actually being used by corporations is to steal market share away from each other. That is not producing productivity or social benefits, it is just carving up a zerosum pie. Brian when did you get the idea for this book . Robert the original idea of rapid Economic Growth in the middle the 20th century, Slower Growth before and after, came about when i was graduating many years ago, when new work on the history of the American Economy came up with some startling numbers. That is that the output, the total production of goods and services in the u. S. Economy doubled between the 1920s in the 1950s. And yet
Creating too much data. What do you mean by that . Ert we are committing creating too much data in the context of big data, and artificial intelligence. Most of that is being used for marketing. Most of the big data that is actually being used by corporations is to steal market share away from each other. That is not producing productivity are social benefits, it is just carving up a very zero some pipe. Brian when did you get the idea for this book . Robert the original idea of rapid even nine growth in the middle the 20th century, Slower Growth before and after, came about when i was graduating many when new work on the history of the American Economy came up with some startling numbers. , theis that the output total production of goods and services in the u. S. Economy doubled between the 1920s in the 1950s. And yet, the amount of capital that was used to produce goods and services did not increase at all. That violated all that the Economic Growth rules that said that output and ca
The tomb guard badge, which is depicted on our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge in the United States military with the exception of the astronaut a astronaut badge. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man and now in the brotherhood of fellowship of tomb guards. We have a society, we are 501c3 organization and part of the bylaws is is we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, this, sort of a sweeping generation here, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talk to School Groups, and its appalling to me how little they know. Its not their fault. We have allowed all this teaching and teaching to the test and we have not put history on the test. And i will get off my soap box. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups probono, this is my 81st speech this year. In 2015. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is over. Im speaking pretty much nonstop from the first
Test. Test. It was sitting there so long, they played out of that quarry but close but no cigar in terms of the color of the stone. So he was one of the engineers on the Washington Monument. Another little circular thing here, the guest of honor at the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in 1848 was George Washington and custis, this guy who helped complete it is on his lawn. That looks like the Washington Monument. This is the grave of the first person of european descent to be buried on the property and her name is mary randolph. Randolphs were very prominent in virginia. Her father was thomas mann ran go dolph and a direct descendent of pocahontas, and she wrote a book called the virginia housewife that was the most popular cookbook and housekeeping book of the early the first half of the 19th century. Her cuss cousin was the wife of George Washington custis and she was buried there. Born april 30, 1781, and died in 1857. From his death until the union troops came a
Now on naturalized u. S. Citizen, mr. Winchester was born in and first visited america in the 1960s. Recorded at the Boswell Book Company in he discusses the process of writing the book and his love for the country. Well, thank you very much indeed. First of all, to sort of its slightly weird to be writing a book called the united the states when it was disunited for a long, long time. People turn off their cell phones. I cant, ill play you a short the end. Usic at i hope no one telephones me. R ill feel like rudolph giuliani. Im addressing a huge political now. Ign right hope that doesnt happen. What were trying to do is tell this book kground of which is a big sort of plum pudding of an affair. How it all came into being, sort of pluck one or wo of the plums from the pudding and try to illustrate what the book is all about. But first, the background. Come into being. Its quite a complex story. Able to tell,t be am english. Ut i fell in love with this country quite literally when i 19