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And be sometimes several screens simultaneously. And were getting messages sometimes from the same person in different channels, and then tough figure out you have to figure out did this text message come first or did this email saying, no, im going to meet you at the movie theater, and then you have to look at the time stamps, and the past is mixed up with the future. Meanwhile, we have tremendous is access to the past. We know more about the lives of bach and beethoven and mozart and mahler and have zinn sky than any of them knew about their predecessors. We have instant access to all of their music. The music from our personal pasts, the music that we loved when we were kids, its as available to us as music from ancient times and music thats just being recorded yesterday. And it all gets mixed up together. So were in a kind of eternal present. You say that theres a philosophy in our society that we should live in the present. Thats exactly where we should be. But that doesnt really ....
Code written three books with my husband and im happy to be here today with dirt talking about death on howl tough on hold. I usually write about economic history. Im interested not rigorous, the rest of the United States becoming a world power. What propelled the United States to achieve and that greatness. Host if you had to narrow that down into a semisoundbite what would that be. Guest the rise of the United States and the ability of entrepreneurs in a free market having with Property Rights to establish tremendous economic development. Host where did you two meet . Guest we met at murrays take university in kentucky when bert came there to work and he was a very young fellow then and i was a lot younger. But i graduated and then was working in the department and ....
People would pay, i would probably pay per month. Would that lead to a completely different place it is hard to get people to part with money but they like to part with it in less obvious ways as American Culture laugh laugh to say advertising the idea that is so natural. Taken not think of a better note about what could happen in the future the book is the attention merchants the epic scramble to get inside our heads it is a fascinating read to make many of us question the bargain that was made of suppose did freeze services. It is a great pleasure. Our goal is to give faculty members and othe other campusese information about free markets and Current Events and material for their classrooms. Host hell many books have you retained to work over a ten . Cynic ive written three books with my husband and i am happy to be here today to talk with you about death on hold. I usual ....
Thank you calling and without further ado i thought id pose a question first to the judge alternating between the joint and biographer. Mister posner, when you were the age of some of these people as an undergraduate at yale, but biography tells us you are a fabulous yates scholar, interested in literature. What made you decide to go to law school . Law school is always the default graduate choice for any college graduate. And my father was a lawyer and he gave some thought to going to graduate school in english but decided it was not for me so i dont think i consideredanything else. Harvard law school seemed to have a permanent impression on you isuppose, seemed to change and launch your trajectory in many ways. Can you tell us about the Academic Experience there . Well, it was mixed. But they did something clever. They did attrition in their first year of law school so that was very good. I got a good start. And second and ....
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone. Thanks for coming and tonight we are in here to talk about the new book weapons of math destruction and we are excited to get into this discussion have the few housekeeping notes first if you have any noisemaking devices and also with the format you will have the opportunity to ask questions after the presentation please raise your hand when you have a question well bring the microphone around to record that so everybody can hear we will be doing a book signing after this is over. If you like to purchase a book they are for sale up front at the bookstore also this is a politics and prose event if you pick up a calendar you can find but to go beyond the simple challenge where we live in the age where it affects our lives to be paid for Health Insurance and by the mathematical models. And then the opposite is true. And even when they are wrong. Cathy oneil is the ideal person to w ....