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We are staying on top of breaking news, that is that hostage situation in the country of mali in west africa. What weve learned is that the hostage situation is over. And that reportedly all of these hostages, initially 170 of them, are now free. We are also hearing that a belgian diplomat is reportedly one of the people who was killed in this attack at a Radisson Hotel in malis capital. Also new, just in the past few minutes, al qaeda claiming responsibility for this attack. Gunmen stormed in to the hotel this morning. Took those hostages inside a radisson there in malis capital. U. S. Military personnel already stationed in mali, helped with hostages. We had video there. You saw thac it showed some of those hos tatages being taken t safety. Reports that at least three people are dead in the attack. We dont know whether that belgian dip nlomat is one of th three. This is quickly developing. Well bring you the latest throughout the show. The other big developing story is the terror att
If it happens here, we are here or anywhere that matters. America is watching on cspan. Powered by cable. Michael mayer, your new book about Benjamin Franklin has this phrase in it appearing several times, each generation discovers Benjamin Franklin for himself. What is it about Benjamin Franklin that makes him an enduring character for americans . It is in the eye of the beholder. Because he did so many things, i think it is easy, as as generations proceed or as different types of people look at a story to draw inspiration for him or question the things he did, or look at his legacy that others have not looked out quite strongly. A little bit about you as you get started, you teach nonfiction writing at the university of pittsburgh. What number book is this for you . This is a number four. You have an interesting origin story. Tell me about it please. I spent over a decade in china i stayed on and i were as a journalist and writer. When i got back to the states, i was invited to the s
Good luck. Guest thank you. Next eric or nelson and andrew mcabee talk about the technical advancements taking over our lives and our economy and suggest ways to harness those advancements to benefit society. The conversatconversat ion is about one hour. Good evening. Welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california the place where you are in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at Common Wealth club. Org. I am Andrew Leonard from salon. Com your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is eric or nielsen and Andrew Mcafee who are business researchers at the m. I. T. Sloan school of management. Eric is the director of the m. I. T. Center for and enters the principle for research science. The two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with eric selfpublished book race against the machine which coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. They follo
There is a reason that they are called the business plan. I just came from a panel there and there were three other economists and they were pointing out some pretty good statistics. As you may know, the Median Income is the 50th percentile is lower now than it was in the 1990s. In the employment to population ratio has plummeted. Some of the members are little bit better recently, but it keeps people dropping out of the labor force and not new job and how can these two groups be a very different perspective with one right and one wrong end if you look deeper there are some impressive numbers that match up with the optimism of the technology and there are record levels of productivity and gdp and all of those numbers are growing quite deeply. And the other statistics about the Median Income are also exactly accurate. And it is happening on the situation simultaneously. And it does create more wealth. And that is that there is no economic law that will help others benefit from the techn