[inaudible conversations] booktv is on twitter. Follow us to get publishing news, scheduling updates, author information and to talk directly with authors during our live programs. Twitter. Com booktv. Pulitzer prizewinning science and Technology Reporter john markoff, whose work appears in the New York Times, talks about the current and future relationship between humans and robots. John markoff has been seeing around the corners of the future as one of the nations Top Technology writers since he joined the New York Times in 1988. In 2013 he won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting as part of a team of New York Times reporters. Hes a frequent host and moderator for our revolutionary series, and we love john for all of these reasons. But we have a special affection for john for other reasons as well. He is a child of Silicon Valley. He grew up and went to high school here. He started covering technology in Silicon Valley in 1976. His vivid book, what the doormouse said, illumin
Good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of every second 2016. Mdm. Clerk, please call the local supervisor avalos, present president breed hur present campos, present. Cohen, present. Farrell, present. Kim , not present mar, present. , present. , present. Tang, present. Wiener, present. , present. And president you have a quorum thank you. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] all right madam clerk are there any communications . None to report today can you please read the Consent Agenda items one through 12 comprise the Consent Agenda. These items are considered routine the member object item may be removed and considered separately. See no names on the roster item clerk please call parole supervisor mark. Cameras were to pull item 11 . Okay on the remaining items excluding item number 11 madam clerk please call the roll supervisor mar aye, peskin aye, supervisor tank aye supervisor wiener aye yee aye, avalos, aye, bree
President breed hur present campos, present. Cohen, present. Farrell, present. Kim , not present mar, present. , present. , present. Tang, present. Wiener, present. , present. And president you have a quorum thank you. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] all right madam clerk are there any communications . None to report today can you please read the Consent Agenda items one through 12 comprise the Consent Agenda. These items are considered routine the member object item may be removed and considered separately. See no names on the roster item clerk please call parole supervisor mark. Cameras were to pull item 11 . Okay on the remaining items excluding item number 11 madam clerk please call the roll supervisor mar aye, peskin aye, supervisor tank aye supervisor wiener aye yee aye, avalos, aye, breed, aye, campos, aye. Cohen, aye. Farrell, aye. Kim aye. There are 11 aye these are finally passed on the First Reading and adopted unanimously [gavel] betake pl
Rulers of afghanistan have taken it and which of the geographical position of afghanistan to play a sort of a neutrality card using the favoritism towards one global power, playing that against the possibility of leaning towards the other global power to keep both of them somewhat at bay. This has been the diplomatic strategy of successful afghan rulers whenever there have been any and the cold war for for example was a notable period. Both the ussr and the essays were just to have guinness and both were competing to enlarge their influence in the country and somehow because of the counterbalancing of those two forces there was a period when afghans were in control of their own destiny and during that period use of modernization and change it at anna stan that was more rapid and more sort of traumatic than you have seen anywhere in this country. That period ended when the pendulum of trying to swing back and forth between the inner afghanistan and the outer worlds just started to swing
Because it is so common and i dont think we appreciate how wonderful this town is until you are away from it and other experiences. I want to give a few caveat before i start reading. I am not a spokesperson for the aid community. I am one of many actors who worked in this field. Some people much longer than i have been. I worked a dozen years, people have worked twice this time i have been working, much more experience and much more expertise so these are my personal views and i dont claim to have all the answers about these issues because they are complex and challenging but these are the observations i had from my time overseas and i worked in a number of contexts and a number of different paths this career can take. Some people work in one or two countries for many years, some people work for one agency for many years. I jumped around the lot. That is person of my personality. There are a lot of career paths this profession can take. A lot of people said to me arent you kind of you