Booktv is on facebook. Like us to interact with booktv guest and viewers. Facebook booktv. It is booktv at book expo america. Publishings annual trade show. More from the set at the convention center. You have a new book coming out. What it is about . It is about the innovators. The word is becoming devoid of meaning because it is overused. I wanted to look at how real people invented the computer and internet and how innovation happened in the digital age. It was something from steve jobs and before that bill gates to say who made that type of person and how did they end up being successful. So it isnt about Singular People but collaboration. One of the things i discovered in doing the book is real innovation comes from great teams and not just great leaders what surprised you . The importance of connecting the arts to technology. The importance of what steve jobs always talked about, the liberal arts and engineering int int int int int intersecting. It started with person who loved p
I have to navigate everything over here. Thank you all for coming tonight im going to steal the line of my friend. The last reading i went to she sent it just so exciting to not have to read a book upside down which is what we Childrens Book illustrated is always have to do so im going to start by reading the opening of the book. Atrocities, the Solidarity Movement 3mile island. These were some of the stories on the cbs evening news broadcast of february, 1982. After getting through these reports they tried to get viewers to stick through commercials for the final segment of the evening he defeated measure. The story appeared a few minutes before 7 00 and was introduced by dan rather who had replaced Walter Cronkite the year before. Other countries have done it for years but versions of the metric system didnt draw many and only inched along. Bob schaffer has more on what it after a lot of the plot and tax dollars spent and other things to tell us why we need to go metric is in trick s
Walter isaacson, inputting the innovators together, you crowdsourced this book a little bit. The internet was invented in order to allow people to collaborate on the research. That was the original done by the Defense Department and the internet which is if you want people in Different Resource Centers far away to help you save your work, we will have this internet. So we can share things. So i thought one night, well, why dont i see if it still works that way . So i took some of chapters in my book, early drafts of them, very early drafts and put them online for everybody to read. Comment, tell me. Oddly enough some of the people, i got 18,000 comments in the first week for one chapter. And a lot of it led to some good stuff, like Stewart Brand, one of the great, wonderful, colorful characters in this book. Stuart graham was a who invented the catalog, the well which is one of the early online services. He invented, he helped do the mother of all demos. He was at the gracious so may d
Gerri do you want a cheaper mortgage . Buy a bigger house. Mortgage rates falling below traditional mortgages. With one this we have the Vice President of analytics. Jed, welcome to the show. Normally if you have a jumbo loan, thats alone for 400 and 70,000 or more in some markets, you have to pay a higher rate than somebody who gets a conventional loan. So how unusual is this . Its very unusual. We have never seen a point where the rate has fallen below. There are a couple of reasons for this. First of all, the fees that are often tacked on to the conforming loans have gone out. To that has made them more expensive. And the concerns about tapering and what it means for investors. It has affected conforming loans more than other loans. Gerri a lot of technical reasons coming together. They dont necessarily packaged these loans and resell them. They are getting great yields. That is much higher than they are typically getting in the market place. Can this continue . I think the Bigger P
Fiveyear lows just moments ago and data at adp, 176,000 jobs last month. All of this as you mentioned before the big jobs report comes out tomorrow morning. This is one to watch as it inches ever closely to that 3 mark. Question is whether investors are ready for it. Bank of england and ecb are stating pat on the key decisions today. Plenty more with simon and the close later on. The road map today begins with the jobs data. Unemployment up while weekly jobless claims fall again. The smartwatch competition has started with both samsung and qualcomm unveiling their first wearable devices. We will have both on the show. Yahoo rolling out the new logo for the First Time Since 2009. And symbolic of many recent changes of the company under the new ceo Marissa Mayer. As if that wasnt enough, jcpenney is talking Martha Stewarts home goods line before a judge even decides the outcome of the threeway licensing battle with macys. And speaking of threeways, bk, brian. Thank you. Its good to be he