Been doing this for a long time and i have been doing this since before there were laws in this space so there were some responsibility but in a regular talk i give to businesses right now is whether your data obligations because everybody has them now trade 47 states have passed certain data loss. Kentucky just past one this last month to come into the rest of the world. But its interesting, you have those in california has done things such as almost having a right to erase your past while on social media if you were a teenager. So god forbid any of us would have said things we were embarrassed about when we were a teenager and or posted them on line. That is where the California Legislature is coming from. Is a coming from the police . A little bit of both but theres a lot coming from the state legislature. Our good friends across the street here have been looking at this issue and have 20 or 30 acts in the statutes and the space up there looking at year after year after year but the
Me it is a lot or powerful and moving and haunting and meaningful if you will dont know. This story is obscure enough and the way it plays out it has a certain power if you dont know. You can google it. This is nonfiction and history and it happened and if you have to know you can do that. But i would encourage you not to do that. I would encourage you to just go with the flow. The last hundred pages go by quickly. I think they are more powerful if you dont know. Are you aware that the smithsonian holds jeannette artifacts . Yes, i do. Have you seen them . Yes. They are at the navy academic, smithsonian and National Archive has stuff, and stuff in San Francisco as well. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming. I will sign books down here. Right . Form up the chairs first and line them up solid. Thank you. Our special booktv programming over the next several hours focuses on Technology Beginning the the second machine age work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologie
Democracy is beginning to become irritated at the technology. That is a nice phrase in, isnt it. It has been one of the unique stories of the last 20 years. The birthplace. The modern digital age, and reaction to it. The same thing happening batiste. It is too cold back east. [laughter] and this is why we talk to our techno utopian friends to say dont worry, technology will take care of all these things. You have to grapple with the fact that not everybody is sharing in this county currently. If you just ignore that of people are going to get justifiably angry. And the reaction of many of them is going to be, we have to stop this technology, throw rocks at the buses. 200 years ago it was smashing the runs. As we said earlier, we dont think that is that all the right solution. Destroying the benefits that we could be having. If you ignore the problem, that is a reaction that many people will have to be have to change the conversation to focus on more Realistic Solutions that are more in
Technologies in africa and asia, how much of the problem with growing income inequality in the developed world is u. S. Centric and will it go away once the rest of the world catches up. That is a great question. Let me look at other developed countries. If you look at the countries that are rich and developed, the pattern is very similar in the other countries. In 1822 countries, inequality is growing in sweden, france and japan. One of the exceptions was greece about they have another set of exceptions. Greece is not the model they started with different lefbl levels of inequality. It isnt just politics or local conditions. It is more fundamental than that. Look at what is happening in china and other countries and there i think the stories are more striking because we were looking at some of the issues in terms of say manufacturing employment and people think of globalization and technology as being the two great forces affecting the economy. And the idea of manufacture moving from