Hungary is an eu member, but the government there the leadership has basically said we have our own conception of the of state interests, and we are going to emulate russia more than were going to emulate the e. U. , so your seeing a real crackdown on media and civil society. There was a recent protest, as im sure youre aware, bat new internet tax. Its really interesting. No one was really reacting to all these threats and attacks on journalists but when they started taxing the internet, that got people agitated. Goes to my point about linking the struggle for Media Freedom to the broader struggle for freedom of expression. But hungary is absolutely going the wrong direction. We just sent a mission to hungary led by our cpj board member, who is hungarian american and knows the country well, and her report was very chilling. She wrote about it in an oped for the times but this is a country that is an e. U. Member bus it rejecting e. U. Values. You mentioned earlier that the Chinese Gove
They do and the solution is better than what came before this. There are very few cases in society where we elected inferior Technology Like the betamax and vhs story. So there are complicated reasons and we chose the worst technology. But that doesnt happen very often and then 10 years later we had dvds which makes the whole thing kind of obsolete. So it is the local Market Progress that tends to talk about this. The problem is the effects. And that includes airconditioning get invented initially with an Industrial Technology and then they put in a Movie Theater for the first time which made the summer were popular. No one went to the movies in the summer until airconditioning came along because many other people needed to be in cooler temperatures. So triggers the Single Digits where everyone moves to the sun belt in florida and the desert states and places that are basically uninhabitable. The truth is thats really out there and that rewrote the political map of the united states. S
They have this amazing curiosity about the world. Theres this willingness to follow the threads of interests, not being clear where those threads will take them. In my book i talk about this as a slow hunch, this idea innovation doesnt often come from lightbulb moments. It comes from getting interested in something without a clear idea why youre interested in it and following that interest for sometimes for decades, and just kind of teasing it out until turns into something that is transformative that can change the world. The version of that in the episode on colds, call history of our mastery of cold and artificial refrigeration and airconditioning over the last 100 years. One of the weird heroes of that chapter is clarence berzon of birdseye frozen foods who invented the technology of flash freezing almost 100 years ago. Is passed to this was a beautiful process where he was a naturalist and a park ranger, at one point we recruited this initial. He goes up, he moved to labrador with
The Hummingbird Effect: Costa Rica's dazzling diversity of hummingbirds. The Hummingbird Effect airs on National Geographic WILD HD at 11:00 AM, Monday 6 May. Costa Rica's dazzling diversity of hummingbirds
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