Authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Good evening, thanks for attending tonights bookmark with Mark Zwonitzer, author of the statesman and the storyteller. Facilitating tonights discussion is a friend and former education director, you will notice a camera in the back of the room. Tonights program is being filmed by cspan. We will be offering a q a at the end. Please, if you want to ask a question wait for the microphone to come to you. You want to be heard as well as scene. Finally on the way out, if you could please pick up a listing of our Upcoming Events and information on the Mark Twain Commemorative Coin Program we encourage you to take a look at those opportunities. Thank you for coming tonight. Double thank you if you are a twain house member. With that i turn it over to begin the program. Thank you. Thank you. Its my pleasure to introduce our author, Mark Zwonitzer who wrote the statesman and the storyteller, john hay, mark twain and the rise of amer
Country doesnt work in another. They have to really invest themselves in it. Do you speak any french . I speak just enough to get myself in trouble. I can ask a question that can be under stood but i can understand the answer because they speak much too fast for me. When you have a staff meeting here in the United States, whose around the table . There are monthly board meetings and the board is composed of all publishers of all seven divisions in the heads of each of the major functions, chief operating officer, chief counsel, marketing director, Communications Director hr director. Im probably leaving somebody out and i apologize in advance but people around all the major functions are there. We talk about how we are doing against our budget and strategic initiatives. Thank you. s Book Publishing a modern business . It is a 19thcentury business. It has changed more in the past ten years than it did the past hundred years before. It is not a leadingedge business because its really an
Agencys i. T. System doing cybersecurity and also doing password restoration. Kind of and against them you had the Peoples Liberation army. So it wasnt entirely a fair fight. Sought idea of managed services is good but its easier to say than to do. So in talking to people in the government they say, well, theres networks, theres email, theres the application thats are running. What is it youre going to be managing . What is it youre going to move to . Then theres the question of who is it thats going to manage the services . Do you go to commercial contractors the way gsa does it now . Do you have it be a Central Agency like dhs . I dont know if you want to talk about managed services. If this works, it and the budget will profoundly change how the federal government does Cyber Security. Ill stress at this point the way if. So i dont know who wants to go first. Ill take a first stab. I think the answer to your question depends on the answer of who. Commercial. Is it another agency . Is
Up next were going to go from space to dna. And we have eric schulte coming. Hes up next. Thanks very much. Really appreciate it. So a beloved astronomer was faced with a task that would seem daunting to just about anyone. Okay . If we humans were to announce our existence in this universe, how would you do it . And more importantly, what would you say . Now, i say say very lightly here because language is a very human construct. A concept weve applied to many living and nonliving things to help us understand communication. But if were being frank, what is communication . Is it the words . The syntax . The grammar . In the narrowest sense, maybe. To understand what communication is, lets just imagine its 100 years hence and weve all uploaded our consciousnesses into some reddit hive mind Cloud Computer managed by watson and our minds have been reconstructed with complete fidelity 100 identical to the moments of your biological life. And lets say that my mind wants to learn something. I
Leaked damaging information from the talks. Investors and companies are eager for a deal. The german chancellor and the u. S. President both stand behind tpp, saying it will encourage Economic Growth and trade. Votes orraise all benefit only wealthy corporations and the elite . That is what we want to talk about with 3 experts following it. The head of the apartment of external economic of the end of external economic policy. She says german industry giveves that tpp will committees better access to the u. S. Market. But its aborted that it remain its important that it remains ambitious. Editor of the opinion page. He says tpp will most likely boost economies on both sides of the atlantic and strengthen transatlantic ties. European fears about decisively lower food Environmental Standards are overblown. The head of greenpeaces political unit in behind last weeks majorleague. He says tpp has to be stopped because in the agreement, consumer and Environmental Protections are less importan