Oh say does that starspangled banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave monday night on the communicators we met up with author peter nowak at the electronic medication slow show visit we are a new phase of development likely to enhance the human condition. Robots are an especially interesting one because in 2014, i think it was the year of robot angst. I dont know the day when i that i didnt see some kind of story about how robots are stealing jobs from humans and we are all going to end up at work. Heres a robot its a better bartender, better waitress or waiter and so on. The thing i think that is missed a lot is every prior revolution or advance in automation has resulted in better jobs for humans. We are worried about the robots taking our jobs were having a hard time imagining what we will be doing 10 years from now. History has shown we will figure out a way to combine with the robots to create new jobs that were previously unimaginable. At monday night
The director of navy history and heritage command and curator for the navy, he is responsible for the museum, art, and artifact collections, 150 million pages of archives, and for collecting and interpreting u. S. Naval history throughout the world. A graduate of the u. S. Naval academy, his 37 year career focused on intelligent. Professor richard strainer comes from Washington College where he is a professor of history and coauthor of 10 books and numerous articles. His new book how america can spend his way back to greatness comes out at the end of the month. John maxwell hamilton comes from Louisiana State university and he is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson center for international scholars. His career has taken him through journalism before academia. The book he is working on now focuses on propaganda in world war i to set the stage, we will start with you. 100 years ago a german uboat sank the luxury liner lusitania as it steamed toward port, killing nearly 1200 passengers
So i would ask everybody to check their cell phones just to make sure that a your cell phone is off. And also just so you know that it is being filmed tonight. We will be taking questions later and passing around notecards and then reading the questions from up here so that they can also be part of the life stream and the booktv live stream and the booktv. And there will be a book signing afterwards. Haymarket books has a table, and gary will be signing books so, please, join us afterwards. So this weekend i went to d. C. , and i had a couple of extra hours, and so i went to see the king memorial. How many people have seen the king me moil . Memorial . Its exceedingly depressing. The original plans for the monument included alcoves to honor other civil rights models, but those were scrapped because of ip sufficient funds. King towers over us. The sculpture is flanked by a granite wall. Fourteen quotes are on that wall, not one uses the word racism or segregation or Racial Injustice or
Hope that the fcc moves with dispatch in the proceeding that youve mentioned where weve proposed to get rid of the sports blackout rule. Host does that have to go through congress, or can you do that administratively . Guest oh, theres steps the fcc can take administratively. Weve already started the process of doing that, and were getting comments from the public about that proposal. Host you recently made a proposal about 9 11 calls from hotels. Why . Guest it really struck me that this was a gap in our Public Safety communications that was screaming out for some kind of public awareness. I saw the story on twitter, actually, of someone gave me notice about the issue on twitter, and i read the story, and i couldnt believe that this poor little girl, 9 years old, had to watch her mother get stabbed in a texas hotel, dial 911 four times and wasnt able to reach anybody and ultimately, as you might know, her mother died. And it just brought home to me the fact that Public Safety communic
Problems. We will speak with richmonds mayor as chevron agrees to pay 2 million. Then as president obama speaks about housing recovery in phoenix, we will look at the devastating impact of the foreclosure crisis. Trying to convince me the house is foreclosed on, trying to evict me and im trying to keep my home. Is, you took my money all those years. Either work with me and let me keep my home, or give me my money back. We will look at how richmond, california is planning to use Eminent Domain to help fight the foreclosure crisis. We will speak to laura gottesdiener, author of the new book, a dream foreclosed black america and the fight for a place to call home. First, we look at the National Security agency and the u. S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Dea agents are using intelligence gathered by the nsa to investigate americans and then being order to cover it up. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Jef