Wisconsin Election Officials when he is not working or writing. 1721 tells the history of the worst smallpox epidemic to hit boston. It set the stage for scientific advancement including the controversial but effective smallpox inoculation. The pittsburgh gazette calls this book solidly told and the wall street journal called it a deeply researched account. Please join me in welcoming stephen coss. [applause] i am a wisconsin election official. I am not in wisconsin. They are having an election. I had to vote absentee. I would rather be here right now. The line of fire. Stephen exactly. That is a nonpartisan position. It is a fantasy a fancy phrase for poll worker. Register new voters. Firsttime voters, naturalized citizens. I like it a lot. Thank you very much for that introduction. Thanks to harvard bookstore. This is my first time here. But i have heard about this store. Everybody has. It smells like a bookstore should smell and looks like a bookstore should look. I am happy and pro
And the mobile machines will carry us around. So i think itll be in a doom which new choices will surface for us and we will be able to go a lot of places the novel have a big effect on our cities and at the same Time Companies and city governments will be able to manage our movements and that will result kinds of questions with privacy. Its the next stage of the internet revolution. If you imagine a scenario, los angeles 2028, what should we expect . One thing about information revolution, you cannot bet on dates. Weve seen it before with cell phones. My coauthor was in paris at the turnofthecentury and around the year 2000, we were predicting smart phones were going to change communication by 2003 and it turned out we were way early, they did not come until 2007. But the changes were important, los angeles in 2028, we will see a lot more choices, they will spend billions of dollars on public transportation, they will be cars that are semi autonomous running in certain parts of los an
A game works on parts of government. You kill the postal service, merry the armed forces, screw agriculture subsidies, mary Social Security and healthcare reform tells us. Great tools because in a free and democratic country politics is a stool balanced on a tripod of power, freedom, and responsibility. We live in a free and democratic he. A little less democratic than it was before last night. Also a great tool of political analysis because we are so passionate about our politics and how do passionate affairs end . And a passion, usually coming in a crime of passion sometimes and occasionally they turn into stable, permanent legal arrangements which is to say the endless. This quarrel known as marriage so how do we approach the Political Institutions of our free and democratic country, do we ever grow throw them with violence, do we screw around cheating on them while based cheat on us or do we try to build something lasting and boring but worthy and annoying, marvelously virtuous and
To speech or not its the people you dont have to be here. There will be no tests. I say this sincerely. im very flattered you took the time in your evening to come listen to me. I think that my students by and large are interested in the subject, but i know perfectly well that if they did not test, academic papers or rather, the seats would be empty. None of you have to be here, but she did, and i find that very flattering. I could i supposed to be a test at the end. The title of my talk on the title of my book is called the heartbreak of aaron burr. I cant tell you the whole story without giving away the ending. I dont want to give away the ending because its not just that i want you to buy the book and read the book and enjoy it and hang around till the end, but it has to do with the reason i wrote the book in the first place. This goes back to my experience of writing, my experience of reading and in particular, my experience of listening to a question that my mother has been puttin
And the arrival of the key figures in florida in the years leading up to the boom in the giddiness of the frenzy it self which could be described as one gigantic party, followed by the pain and tragedy of the bust. I think these are very american stories. Every generation lives through one or 2 such booms and busts and virtually everyone learns a few painful lessons from them. Part and parcel of living in a Free Enterprise system with freemarket capitalism. I like to think there is a more serious aspect to what i am doing. I have come to believe we need to look under the proverbial hood of these frenzies to understand why they arose, what went wrong and who or what might be to blame because the economy john kenneth gob race once wrote, quote, regulation that outlaws financial incredulity is not a practical possibility. In other words you cant legislate away human gullibility. How these events happened, and not to be seduced by such speculative frenzies because they do keep on occurring