Columnist for slate. Com. This is another social distancing social in partnership with the new America Foundation and Arizona State university. Today we are talking about the future books and the National Political writer for cnn politics. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to moderate this, one of the things that it brought to mind is how in the early 2,000 it seems there were people making a bout of predictions about the future of books and how things had to change and which way they needed to go. That was all tied to the emergence of the book technology. And most people said at the time that it didnt turn out to be true. Ebooks didnt take over from print books and in particular, younger readers more than any other Demographic Group preferred print. So the idea that the Book Publishing needed to change with this technology, maybe it did in some ways, but not in ways people thought. I dont know if you remember that time of the kind of craziness that went along with it i dont know