Russia turkey israel, lot of different other countries, u. K. And canada and really trying to understand their views on privacy. Whats interesting is they do draw the line theres a little different than how we think about it. So for example in the u. K. They see privacy is a right as it relates to businesses collecting your data. But they have no problem snapping your picture everywhere you go in the u. K. They are some of the most photographed citizens in the world so its interesting to see that. If you are getting ready to live or your children are getting way are getting ready to look another country or do business in another country youll definitely want to go to the book and look for some of the different differences between america from our point of view and those countries and their point of view on privacy. We thought it made it richer to explore what the whole world is doing and this and that in contrast and compare it to what we have. Is a possible globally to wipe out all yo
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
One of the things that theresa has been great about. She speaks to childrens groups a lot and thats one of the things about the book is parents should really be looking at it if you have kids in this space and if you are thinking about it and how you might monitor and work with them. One of the things too a lot of you here in the Business Community and one of the things i would love to have you take away and ted and i have talked about this a lot is everything is hackable. Everything so i know you mean well when you are collecting data about your customers but just understand that data is a target and when it gets stolen depending on how you have stored it you can be putting your customers at risk. So there is a recent revelation and i wont name what was that there was an Investment Company in their brokers were developing psychological profiles of their clients. I cannot only imagine what it said and would identify ted is riskaverse and calley is a risktaker and other key elements abo
Support Edward Snowden and chelsea madden, private manning and to remember that lineage that atm with the Citizens Commission to investigate the f. Era. Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] for people in the back. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] so is conviction that the fbi office was worth breaking into mustve been based on more than just antipathy for the fbi. Id like to know what does he know about the fbi the email of, which convinced him to take this rather drastic action. I can answer that question. We talked about it quite a bit. He had no file on the fbi, but what he had was a strong perception that turned out to beetroot. He thought that Jay Edgar Hoover was a consummate bureaucrat and i saturate keep greatly detailed files on everything, including documents about how to deal dissent. He didnt have any idea that dirty tricks that would involve in dealing with such a thing. But he thought the jay crew affair would require the meticulous records to be kept up everyt
Good evening, and welcome to tos meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where youre in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at commonwealthclub. Org. Im Andrew Leonard from salon. Com, your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee who are researchers at the Mit Sloan School of management. Erik is the directer of the mit center for Digital Business and andrew is the Principal Research scientist. The two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with their selfpublished book, race against the machine, which kind of coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is really beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. They followed this up with a bigger book, the second machine age work, progress and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. And its really, i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is. In the San Francisco and greater b