Given the heights and cool and facebook and others recently. You normally have a pretty broad stroke to your coverage. Why this book and right now . Thank you for having me, by the by. I started this book in 2017 i had just taken a job as a columnist for the financial times, trying to figure out the worlds biggest business and economic stories and an opinion form, and for the final, i started looking through corporate figures. I saw amazing numbers in the Financial Sector to the technology sector. Run the numbers that really stuck out was a Mckinsey Global institute figure, looking at 80 corporate wealth was in just 10 . Because of the firms richest in personal data and intellectual property. Basically, if your trafficking in these things, were holding the majority of the world corporate wealth. The biggest were the ones like facebook, apple, amazon, netflix a little bit and googled most about. Theres some overlap, facebook and google, apple mostly shunned advertising and third devices
Award also ellington as the block chain society as a global member driven ecosystem and with cryptocurrency projects across industries and for social impact. The members passive investors primarily of technology of one. 5 trillion of Investment Capital so we are celebrating a book tonight that is a very compelling story thats an important story that is lesserknown in the annals of tech history but people working toward social justice with Racial Justice to black lives matter published by Oxford University press its pleasure to have you. Welcome to city lights. [applause] thank you to all of you who have come out to those who will trickle in along the way. There is a great place to be. Wrapping up what that has been a month and a half long to her tour and theres no better place to end up this place in this historic moment. We were just telling the gentleman before we started that where i was headed next to city lights and everybody forgot about the book. They just said oh my gosh. I gre