Transmissible of. The dangerous technologies those which unlike Nuclear Energy require just fairly small facilities access to a computer the Cyber Attacks or access to all the the bar free to do. Issues so that is why its very very hard to regulate and even if we have agreed International Regulations as already have been developed for genetics and Similar Technology is forcing those regulations globally its going to be very hard. Just as hard as enforcing the drug laws globally with the tax laws globally we have that much excessive doing either of those and thats why i do worry that we will have a bumpy ride through this century because we cant really avoid having just a few people somewhere in the world who will. By intention or by misadventure create some a vent which could cascade globally and be a very serious setback but also i feel like a lot of the problem. And mishandling of the new Technological Progress is probably due to the pace of the progress because like before it would
Years between the 1st transatlantic flight. In 919 and the 1st man on the moon in 96 you know that was 50 years but in the 50 years since then in terms of space size in aviation things havent changed no as we back to the moon. The jumbo jet flew in 96 you know. It could be the dry going to sort of in that level off again so we cant assume the sauce just evolving technology will continue to evolve its breakneck speed. You once wrote a book with a very optimistic tile our last century. 16 years on do you feel like your predictions are coming true or maybe you see the reverse process is yes well i think i was among the highlights the issues that the empowerment of small groups of individuals. Inside is going to lead to new tensions new threats to governance and a growing tension between 3 things we want to name the liberty security and privacy and i think that protection has been borne out. Confronted by these concerns in my opinion but although i think we will have a bumpy ride through t
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Cast aside. What they accuse him of doing. Announcer watch book tv, every weekend on cspan2. Announcer pbs science correspondent to miles obrien joined state climatologists for discussion on local, regional, and National Climate change at the Science Center of our planetarium. Hosted by Drake University, this is one hour and 10 minutes. Shullsky, shullskcable satellit [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] announcer pbs science correspondent miles obrien joined state climatologists for a discussion on local, regional, and National Climate change at the Science Center of iowa planetarium. Hosted by Drake University, this is one hour and 10 minutes. Good evening. My name is Kathleen Richardson and i am the dean of the school of journalism and Mass Communication at Drake University. Welcome to the members of our audience here at the Science Center of iowa and des moines and those of you join
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