I think that that signs up his view of it. He writes about technology and culture. The guardian, the new republic, mit tech review and his work has been included in the science and nature writing. I cannot note that in his biohe also says in the early 1980s he was a founding number of the universally unnoticed group and i want to give you sense up behind the stage banter that we were having. These guys all know each other they say that he and neck have been disagreeing for more than a decade. And he also describes it as a walking bummer. [laughter] there is no pessimism in davids view. Antiis a bit more moderated and then we will hear the doom and gloom area and david, start us off, he is the author of enchanted objects. I want to show you an image of my living room. Its a couple of minutes and that will illustrate many of the products that i talked about in the book. Enchanted objects have the same functionality as before except for now they can talk. These are ordinary things and hav
Is the sixth annual boston book festival. Youre the expert or she will see Panel Discussions on how mayors can affect National Politics and it is an inside look of the Digital World and the study of the brain and human consciousness. We will start with a debate on the uses of Technology Today and in the future. My mic is on. Thats good. I am Sacha Pfeiffer from wbur and im pretty excited for this panel because you are going to hear very different views on what the future holds. So we have here and we have talked a lot about the right order in which to bring our speakers up and we have decided you should probably hear from the optimists first about the future and then we will go to the pessimists. So the most optimistic person we have here is david rose sitting in the center. He has written a book called enchanted objects and next to me is our pessimist nick carr and andy mcafee or other optimists. Andy and david are colleagues at m. I. T. David and the metal, his whole work is basicall
Risen from recession. For six years weve been working to rebuild our economy on a newfounddation. What i want people to know thanks to your hard work thanks to your resilience america is coming back. Melissa well lets bring in todays business panel. Fox businesss charles payne. Jack hough from barron soes and stacy snyder is a attorney and an author. Charles payne, in the a block so excited to be here. What do you think about taking message to kansas fighting for the middle class, are you buying it . Im not buying it but i would like to articulate what the newfounddation is. I love the old foundation, capitalism, free markets religious rights, religious beliefs. Individual success. Pull us up by the bootstraps. Those are pretty good. Those leapfrogged us in front of the entire world in short period of time. I think we spend a lot of time trying to break those down they kept us afloat. Melissa he is staying at holiday inn. That is very middle class. Probably gets triple reward points. M
Wednesday night. The victims family has identified him as 32 year old Mauricio Orellana. His cousins as a lot of move to San Francisco 10 years ago and was working to help his sister raise her three children in his native el salvador. Pam neighbors say the victim worked nights and they believe he was asleep on the fire broke out. Six other people suffered minor injuries in the blaze. 54 residents were displaced and 29 businesses were affected. Today those tenants were escorted into the bottom floors of the fire building this see what they could recover. Reporter some residents were allowed to go through to see what they could salvage a looks like most of them have lost everything. Reporter one person at a storage unit in the basement and she was trying to salvage some some of her property from their but she said she was an artist and most of her work has been destroyed. Reporter jorge gomez was disappointed because he waited around most of the day hoping that he and his family would be
With a 45 million hike in spending to a total of 6. 1 billion. Hogans budget director agrees theres not as much as some would like but argues tough choices must be made. The challenge that this administration faces is theres 17 billion in spending requests and theres only 16. 4 billion in cash coming in. Now the budget secretary says that he appreciates that discussion about the budget has now started. But it remains to be seen if there is any wiggle room on the part of the governor the legislature by law cannot add any money to the budget. They can just move things around so the negotiations have begun. The governor gives his state of the state address tomorrow and hell certainly be talking much more about his Budget Priorities at that point. In annapolis, brad bell, abc 7 news. Thank you brad. And more news from marylan regarding public education. Montgomery county Public Schools superintendent joshua starr is stepping down. Neither starr nor the board of education says why theyre pa