Have a good night. Booktv continues now on cspan2, Television First serious readers. Hello. Im ann druyan and im speaking to you from my home in ithaca, new york, and i am the author of cosmos possible worlds. Deeply, truly honored to be participating in an event for the library of congress. In the very first cosmos exactly 40 years ago, carl sagan and Steven Sotloff and i celebrated the Great Library of alexandria. And the library of congress mean so very much to me. Because of the democratic idea of world knowledge belonging to all of us. And so it is my great honor to be here. Im here to talk about possible worlds which is a book ive written but also a Television Series that i have the pleasure of producing, writing and directing with my collaborator. So why possible worlds . Why a third cosmos after 40 years . The first cosmos was an effort to get the broadest possible public a Global Public coordinates in space and in time. It was carl sagans dream, one that i completely share, th
Host Reed Hastings and erin meyer are the coauthors of this new book no rules rules, netflix and the culture of reinvention. Mr. Hastings is also the ceo of netflix and mr. Hastings what is netflix and what do you do . Guest netflix is the worlds leading Entertainment Service and we reproduce and distribute amazing Television Series and movies and around about 20 years and have been 200 million families around the world who are our renters. Host is there a connection to the 1998 company where you had 900 movie titles and 30 employees . Guest a little connection to that. We started 22 years ago delivering dvds in the United States and competing with blockbuster and that was a full decade ago really that we were competing with video stores just in the u. S. When thats 2007 when we started streaming. Roughly the same time youtube did. Host erin meyer, how did you get involved in this book project . I study cultural differences in the workplace and im a School Professor and i came across t
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