Start. You can watch this and other programs on line at booktv. Org. Spent up next, author and lecturer Steven Johnson, best selling Science Writer talks about the cyberworld, Popular Culture and computer networking as a political tool. Mr. Johnson is the author of eight nonfiction books including everything bad is good for you, where good ideas come from, and his 2012 release future perfect. Host Steven Johnson, in your newest book, future futura perfect the case of progress in a networked age use the tere pure progressive. What iss that . Guest is my attempt to come up with a term for this new political philosophy that i seeo emerging all around me. E. The book is really kind of a series of stories about these people are trying to change ther world and trying to advance the cause of progress. Ban but they dont completely fithei the existing models that we have between the left and the right or the democrats and right republicans. Democrats and repub. They believe in many ways that th
Us know where our information is being shared. So its not that all this stuff is head anything a positive direction heading in a positive direction, but if were smart about it and were optimistic and we apply ourselves and use some of these principles, theres a lot of reason to be hopeful about what we can do. Host and finally, michael emails in, do you think that peer Progressive Networks will be amplified by the rapid adoption of the mobile internet in developing nations . Guest yes. Um, because theyre the places where one of the big things you have is maas i have cities being developed where you have huge needs like the kind of infrastructure feeds we talk about, and the idea that cities are going to be Walking Around with these mobile computers that are far more powerful than anybodys computer was 20 years ago, its going to be a tremendous opportunity for these cities solve problems. Just like john snowe and henry white had Walking Around london in 1854, they were looking for patte
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