Me it is a lot or powerful and moving and haunting and meaningful if you will dont know. This story is obscure enough and the way it plays out it has a certain power if you dont know. You can google it. This is nonfiction and history and it happened and if you have to know you can do that. But i would encourage you not to do that. I would encourage you to just go with the flow. The last hundred pages go by quickly. I think they are more powerful if you dont know. Are you aware that the smithsonian holds jeannette artifacts . Yes, i do. Have you seen them . Yes. They are at the navy academic, smithsonian and National Archive has stuff, and stuff in San Francisco as well. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming. I will sign books down here. Right . Form up the chairs first and line them up solid. Thank you. Our special booktv programming over the next several hours focuses on Technology Beginning the the second machine age work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologie
Support Edward Snowden and chelsea madden, private manning and to remember that lineage that atm with the Citizens Commission to investigate the f. Era. Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] for people in the back. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] so is conviction that the fbi office was worth breaking into mustve been based on more than just antipathy for the fbi. Id like to know what does he know about the fbi the email of, which convinced him to take this rather drastic action. I can answer that question. We talked about it quite a bit. He had no file on the fbi, but what he had was a strong perception that turned out to beetroot. He thought that Jay Edgar Hoover was a consummate bureaucrat and i saturate keep greatly detailed files on everything, including documents about how to deal dissent. He didnt have any idea that dirty tricks that would involve in dealing with such a thing. But he thought the jay crew affair would require the meticulous records to be kept up everyt
I have one question so far which i think touches a little bit on that. What do the stagnation and end of innovation days not recognize when they face that . The great stagnation, his argument has used this plateau. You are painting quite a different picture. Hes a super smart guy and we discussed it with him. He really inspired us to work on that first book, race against the machine. When we read his book because he was arguing we had run out of innovation and it was just no more good things, a few good things left to invent. Hanging around a place like mit media lab, we thought that cant possibly be true. Is this guy looking at the same economy we are looking at is the question we had. On the other hit some compelling data about the stagnation of meeting and, and that reinforced us to think hard about how this could be happening. And thats where we came up with this recognition that just because meeting income is stagnating, that doesnt mean innovation is stagnating. In fact, paradoxi
Good evening, and welcome to tos meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where youre in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at commonwealthclub. Org. Im Andrew Leonard from salon. Com, your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee who are researchers at the Mit Sloan School of management. Erik is the directer of the mit center for Digital Business and andrew is the Principal Research scientist. The two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with their selfpublished book, race against the machine, which kind of coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is really beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. They followed this up with a bigger book, the second machine age work, progress and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. And its really, i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is. In the San Francisco and greater b
Good luck. Guest thank you. Next eric or nelson and andrew mcabee talk about the technical advancements taking over our lives and our economy and suggest ways to harness those advancements to benefit society. The conversatconversat ion is about one hour. Good evening. Welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california the place where you are in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at Common Wealth club. Org. I am Andrew Leonard from salon. Com your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is eric or nielsen and Andrew Mcafee who are business researchers at the m. I. T. Sloan school of management. Eric is the director of the m. I. T. Center for and enters the principle for research science. The two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with eric selfpublished book race against the machine which coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. They follo