Captioning sponsored by Annenberg Cpb narrator the geographic region of Southeast Asia and South Pacific is characterized by political and economic disparity, a mosaic of small countries scattered on peninsulas and islands. We begin in laos, Southeast Asias only landlocked country. A long history of isolation has protected its Natural Resources and indigenous cultures. Laos today is beginning to court the Global Economy through the sale of hydroelectric power. Here, we ask if laos can achieve Sustainable Development, generating Economic Growth while maintaining the integrity of its indigenous populations and its natural environment. The mekong river traces an 1,100mile path through or along the border of laos. The river has also been a barrier between laos and its neighbors. Now there is a road, where before there was none. In 1994, the friendship bridge gave laos its first land link with the outside world, through thailand to the west. The bridge may symbolize a connected future, but
Two other things in his illustrious career. He is the National Security columnist for slate and author of four books, most recently the insurgents, which i think he will tell us has at least more crossover with this new book than some people might necessarily imagine. Fred is a pulitzer prizewinning journalist back from his days in the the boston globe, and im very pleased to be able to host him here today. Just a word on format, shortly im going to ask fred to give a few minutes describing the book and telling us a little bit about whats in it, then im going to take the opportunity to have a conversation, dig into a little bit more of the detail and explore some of the themes and what we might conclude from that, and then i will open it up to the floor to give you the opportunity to ask fred some questions. Well all to wrap up at 1 45. Thatll actually give us plenty of time to get into some quite interesting conversation. So without more ado, fred. Ms. [applause] im just going to spea
Did it start with the discovery of that 12story White Building on the outskirts of shanghai. No, in fact, it goes back all the way to the dawn of the internet itself. And in 1967 when the arpa net was about to go up, that was the precursor to the internet, that was, you know, a network where all the contractors at the Defense Department would be able to, you know, talk with one another in their computer programs. There was a man named willis ware. He was a computer pioneer. He was the head of the Computer Department at the rand corporation, and he was also on the Scientific Advisory board at the nsa. And he wrote a paper, it was secret at the time. Its been declassified, its a fascinating document. You can look it up. He said heres the thing, heres the problem. Once you create a Computer Network, once you have access from multiple, unsecured locations, youre going to create inherent vulnerabilities. Youre not going to be able to keep secrets anymore. And so when i was doing my research
Attempt to get more business customers and gain back market share. How has google been so successful . Eric schmidt reveals some of the secrets in his new book and stops by to talk about everything from the apple android fight to whether Marissa Mayer can save yahoo . Stillhoo confirms it holds a 15 stake in ali baba after selling 140 million shares in the ipo. Have adicate they oneyear lockup. Before it can sell the remaining shares and also agreed to vote for director nominees of alibaba. To our lead story, apple is supposed to be shining brightly after its record 10 million iphones in the opening weekend. But the glow is starting to rub off dues to some technical difficulties. Apple had to pull its ios eight update after some customers could not make phone calls. After reports that apps were crashing 56 more often. Adding to the problems, a number of users complaining the new ones band when sitting in your pocket with this video showing an iphone 6 plus getting very badly bent. Join
Contains the fourth most populous country in the world and the largest islamic country in the world. They are, in fact, one and the same indonesia. A fragmentary state spread across an archipelago of 13,000 islands, indonesias motto is unity in diversity. Lately, it does not seem so unified. East timor recently broke away. Rebel forces on aceh and irian jaya threaten the same. While most of indonesia is islamic the island of bali is mostly hindu. Is this why radical muslims recently bombed a popular nightclub here . Or it is because the tropical paradise was a mecca for western tourists . In the current war against terrorism, we explore the geographical roots of the tourist economy that crashed after the violent attack in 2002; whether the influx of visitors will threaten the local indigenous culture; and how balis distinct culture fits into the complex diversity of indonesia. These balinese fishermen still use the methods passed down from their grandfathers. But life around them is ch