talk about his book the battle. in four hours the discussion between saudi pipe and grace turner on obamacare. and stephen more discussing the pros and con the public unions. .. from jacksonville there is a billboard on i-95 that says, who is john gall to? may be our next speaker will be able to explain to us. you heard our all-star prediction panel yesterday, you know there were fireworks. well, don laden s was the gentleman who lit the first match and got things really going. he is, if you read the program notes, an avid believer in technology. what happens if it stops jack anyway, to tell us today what the future could be, please join me in welcoming don luskins on i am john galt. [applause] they keep. thank-you. thank you for that great introduction. one substantial inaccuracy. i actually am john glat. [laughter] but you all are to. that is the secret. her books are lessons, self-help books, guides to how to live. we can all be john glat. we can all be heroes, just
creativity has produced technological improvements which has enhanced the prosperity and the security of the scientific nations although that is part of the story. but that the freedoms protected by liberal? democracies are essential to facilitating scientific inquiry and democracy itself is an experimental system without which neither science nor liberty can flourish. that a book with such a thesis can be written and that its argument can be so generally persuasive is evidence for the russians saying that the only thing more unpredictable of the future is the past because when i was growing up in the 1960s, the received wisdom was that the relationship between science and human freedom was, well, adversarial. that the progress of science went hand-in-hand with the eclipse of freedom. after allwsmx this was the spac age, which in the early going at least was dominated by soviet communism. and while america representing the free world eventually came our top rocket wernor von
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