Obviously, i could do this privately and i have but i would like to say a public thank you to terry for her support for her advice over the years, including many good topics, suggestions, and if you are here you will know she is responsible for the beach boys, and all sorts of others we have enjoyed over the years thanks to her suggestions. So terry, would you please stand up . [applause] tonights speaker, claire l. Evans, has achieved notable success in two disparate fields, both as a musician and as a writer. In the former career, she is the lead singer and cofounder of the conceptual pop group yacht, and has recently returned from a tour in europe with that group. But it is her second career as an expert in the area of technology that brings her to us tonight. And in that regard, she is the former futures editor of motherboard and a contributor to vice, the guardian, and wired, among other publications. She is, for example, the Founding Editor of terraform, vices sciencefiction chro
You to terry for her support for her advice over the years, including many good topics, suggestions, and if you are here you will know she is responsible for the beach boys, and all sorts of others we have enjoyed over the years thanks to her suggestions. Terry, would you please stand up . [applause] tonights speaker, claire l. Evans, has achieved notable success in two disparate fields, both as a musician and as a writer. In the former career, she is the lead singer and cofounder of the conceptual pop group yacht, and has recently returned from a tour in europe with that group. But it is her second career as an expert in the area of technology that brings her to us tonight. And in that regard, she is the former futures editor of motherboard and a contributor to vice, the guardian, and wired, among other publications. She is, for example, the Founding Editor of terraform, a vices sciencefiction chronicle. However, the thing that particularly commands her to our attention and brings are
Ands available for sale signing at the conclusion of the program. So please, without further ado join me in welcoming him this , evening. [applause] dan thank you so much. Thank you, amanda. Really generous and sweet introduction. Thank everybody for being here, otherwise, i would be up here by myself. Especially, amanda told me the smithsonian associate people have reminded me how engaged these audiences are. I really give you my a game to take that seriously. Be a little intellectual, be a little heavy. Theres a lot of material in the book. Look at that. It is right there. Everything from teaching my daughter to drive to a freudian analysis of henry ford. I wanted to talk about the automobile and a little bit of this theory of how one understands that. To reason i am doing that is put us in the present moment, whereas some of you may have heard, Driverless Cars are on the horizon, but at the end of the day, i really want to talk about cars. I am both a lover and hater of cars for a v
Dan thank you so much. Thank you, amanda. Really generous and sweet introduction. I thank everybody for being here, otherwise, i would be up here by myself. Especially, amanda told me the smithsonian associate people have reminded me how engaged these audiences are. I feel like i have to be up on my toes and really give you my agame to take that seriously. And to be a little intellectual, be a little heavy. Talking about the past, present, and future of the automobile. Theres a lot of material in the book. Look at that. It is right there. Everything from teaching my daughter to drive, to a freudian analysis of henry ford. I cannot capture all of that tonight. What i thought i would do is talk about the early automobile and a little bit of this theory of how one understands that. The reason i am doing that is to put us in the present moment, where, as some of you may have heard, Driverless Cars are on the horizon. But at the end of the day, i really want to talk about cars. I am both a
Discussed. This is a bit of a surprise. South africa, it was a full nation tour. They had a phone briefing. He said she wanted to speak frankly for the challenges to see if she could resolve issues but as you mentioned she said the conversations were frank and difficult. She said she wanted to make clear to leaders that it was a challenge to the democratic order if democracy is not restored, not using the coup word. She asked for the health and welfare of the deposed president. She added that these meetings opened the door to continue talking. She was talking about what she claimed was the threat posed and it was not easy to get traction and conversations. It was announced in a lowkey manner, just a few hours ago a spokesperson said assistance has been paused. He said hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. He was very vague about what was meant in real terms. I was talking to Antony Blinken and he said whatever you call it, its a disruption of the Constitutional Order. It immedi