After words has revel guest hosts interviewing top knopp fiction authors about nonfiction authors about their latest work. Mr. Edelman, its a pleasure to be with you today to discuss your new book not a crime to be poor the criminalization of poverty in america. Jibes . Thank you, congressman, ive very glad to be here. Host mr. Edleman, i hope im not embarrassing you but i know you have an 80inch birthday coming up. You dont look 80. Guest thank you for that. Host i want to let you know, happy birthday in advance. Guest thank you very much. Not until january, though. Im still a young one. Host well, youve done a lot inform your life and 80 years done a lot in your life and 80 years is a long time. Growing up as a jewish kid in minneapolis, minnesota, what was it like for you. Guest other good can stalwart, democratic farmer labor family. I grew up with Hubert Humphrey as the mayor, and my father, who was a lawyer in minneapolis, was also active politically a little bit, and so when the
Called them to find out how many offspring they will have, whether they will win wars. It turns out theres a reason that were fascinated with the future. That reason is because there is no greater advantage than knowledge about whats going to happen. Not in nature, not in business and not in governance. If we can know what the future is going to be then we can avoid danger, potentially lifethreatening danger. We can also get the joke of opportunity. If we cant do either of those things, at the very least we can prepare. Knowledge of the future means survival. It means a huge advantage over everyone else. It has become such a central theme in literature and art and such a pursuit of humanity that we know it to ourselves to try to look at how Technology May be affecting our ability to understand the future. Because were kind of entering a time where we have so much of data that that date to be able to help us to make more rational decisions and better decisions in our daytoday life, but
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Intelligence in something as simple as your music playlist or your netflix queue. Those are all using technology that does Machine Learning, to figure out what movies you love to watch and what music you like to listen to. It can be in your internet emails system, filtering out spam. That Automated System is not a algorithmt a computer using Technology Like deep learning. Then on the other and you can have Artificial Intelligence powering selfdriving cars. It uses vision and Machine Learning to help a car navigate a busy street. Announcer watch the communicators monday night on cspan2. Announcer American History tv is on cspan3 every weekend, featuring museum tours, archival films, and programs on the presidency, the civil war, and more. Heres a clip from a recent program. I just want to say, it has been extraordinary for a lot of reasons, one thats a singly explains where we are in september of 1787, always very useful to have a short document to demonstrate. We cant go without unders