Town hall is grateful for the opportunity to invite seattle answers in exchanges of issues, ideas and creativity even when we want do it in person. Well produce online content through the fought and new year if circumstances allow to host live streams from the building, meanwhile if you cant get enough time on zoom or youtube, our past talks are available in yesterdayow or podcast form. Back to tonights program. The event dill run 30 to 40 multiples followed by q a, steve and chelsea will ask your questioned from the ask a question field. Also, know that you can view the event here on crowdcast or on the youtube page. If you want to utilize that platform, closed captioning feature. Townhall is adding new event thursday podcast every day. Upcoming policemans including women odd activism, to bend the course of climb change, and overcoming americas obsession with economic efficiency, a book about the past and future of american isolationism, as well as howard gardner, David Eagleman and h
Grandnephew of George Washington through his brother. Writing at uc berkeley covering the rugby team. On parmalict reporting and cambodia. He has interviewed many important leaders. Also to publications for you know, the Atlantic Monthly and the new york times. He is the author of two other books. My brother my enemy. Escape. s greatest he has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his articles. Most importantly among all of this he has been one of the Research Fellows at the mount vernon Research Fellows. He is somebody who puts us off to go cover a war. That is unusual but we are very accommodating. Welcome him in suggesting presenting his newest book read writing with riding with george. Lets give a warm welcome to him. [applause] phillip thank you very much. It is obvious a incredible honor to speak here at the home of George Washington. Is the best home in america. Thank not only Stephen Mcleod who runs the program and the chief curator. Mary thompson who is a chief histori
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I think that that signs up his view of it. He writes about technology and culture. The guardian, the new republic, mit tech review and his work has been included in the science and nature writing. I cannot note that in his biohe also says in the early 1980s he was a founding number of the universally unnoticed group and i want to give you sense up behind the stage banter that we were having. These guys all know each other they say that he and neck have been disagreeing for more than a decade. And he also describes it as a walking bummer. [laughter] there is no pessimism in davids view. Antiis a bit more moderated and then we will hear the doom and gloom area and david, start us off, he is the author of enchanted objects. I want to show you an image of my living room. Its a couple of minutes and that will illustrate many of the products that i talked about in the book. Enchanted objects have the same functionality as before except for now they can talk. These are ordinary things and hav