We are back live at the National Book festival. Were pleased to have join us now on our book tv set professor Thomas Malone of mit. Heres his most recent book. It is called super minds, the surprising power of people and computers, thinking together. Before we get into the topic of the book, professor, what is it that you do at mit . Im a professor in the sloan school of management and director of the mit center for collective intelligence. Pleasure to be a here. What kind of Management Training do you give at mit . I teach two main courses, one is an mba course on strategic organizational design, about how to organize companies in different situations including Innovative New things, like w i wikipedia for instance and the other is a leadership workshop help students learn about different capabilities for leadership. What is the collective Intelligence Center . We study the kinds of things that i wrote about in my book. Collective intelligence i define in a very general way as groups
Refugee but my parents were refugees. Theres a fracturing of the share experience. Me life was different in the United States, the life was different in canada, my sisters life is different in england. Did all right relatively speaking but that vastly overlambingers and yep oliving together in the same language and the same cultural context, the same as it were social abilities, we share that experience, unity of time and place and experience that we shared, and then gets fractured and get bren up. Even if we had moved to the same place, there would have been a fracture because i spoke english better, was not a professional who lost his job to migrate. Had not lost my social contact and so on. So what happen is this fracturing of a shared experience within the family and one of the ways again to agree with reyna is to tell stories or write to build the bridges, theres something about building a bridge between the new country and old country within this community, within a family, multi
Carotenuto is a professor at ste university with which we frankly Work Together on african issues which also runs an Excellent Program in nairobi that just celebrate its 45th anniversary. Matt was there doing research and bringing some alumni alone on the trigger and then finally joining the panel is jon temin from freedom house, works on their Africa Program and previous work in the Obama Administrations policy plans to use institute of peace. I want to thank jon for outstanding article he coauthored in the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs on some of the new promising Democratic Movement in some of africas biggest countries which was largely aspiration for this event although we modified a little bit but we had kenya and tanzania to the list along with south africa, democratic republic of congo or as a peace corps volunteer 100 jews ago when it was still practically before Belgian Congo days, and also nigeria and ethiopia. So between the six countries with roughly half of africas popu
One giant leap for mankind. On this 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing todays washington journal in conjunction with cspans American History tv will focus on this historic event and its influence on modern spaceflight. For the next three hours we are live from the national air and space museum here in washington, d. C. Where we will talk about apollo 11 with historians, command module pilot Michael Collins and you. You can call us and let us know your impressions of apollo 11 if you watched the moon landing and you want to talk about that day, your impressions of it, 2027488000 and for all others, 2027488001. You can post cspan wj your thoughts and impressions of the 50th anniversary, do the same at our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Our show will be based here from the national air and space museum. A couple facts about the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission, it was astronauts Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin and Michael Collins, the team for that day. The launch
And debates about what we really want. The other thing i would comment on is what is interesting to announcer we will leave this event on economic threats. You can watch our programs online at cspan. Org. We take you live now to the National Economist club in washington, d. C. President of the Federal Reserve bank will be delivering remarks on Monetary Policy on the economy. You are watching live coverage here on cspan. One of our two major events of the year, our summer signature program. I need to thank two friends, two sponsors who have made todays great event worthwhile. First of all, my friends at and forum. In forum is a research and consulting probe affirmed that has been open for 52 years. Greatry much embodies the tradition of innovative Economic Research at the university of maryland. Secondly, our friends at the National Association of realtors. Since 1908, they have been the voice of Real Estate Community in washington and have provided invaluable economic data, research, a