Kevin ashton, he is the coiner of the term internet of things, and hes also the author of this book, how to fly a horse. Mr. Ashton, whats the, whats the background story on the title of that book . Guest it comes from a quotation from Wilbur Wright of the Wright Brothers who was explaining how the Wright Brothers were first to fly. And he dropped a piece of paper to his floor and said to his audience notice how the paper darts back and forth, this is the kind of horse we have to learn to ride if we are going to fly. Host and how does it tie into the theme and themes of your book . Guest well, yeah. The interesting thing is why did the Wright Brothers fly first, and what was the process they used, because they werent the first people to have the idea of building a flying machine, and they werent the first people to try. So why did they succeed where everybody else failed . And the answer is they understood the problem they were trying to solve much better than anybody else. And at the
And this is why cambridge based Food Rescue Organization fran Van Overbeeke freeway has launched a new initiative for pine street inn. To bring fresh healthy food directly from the field to the shelter. To tell us more about how food for free and pine street inn are working together to provide better new tryings for the homeless we have invited Sasha Purpura, executive food for free and pine street inn executive chef frank, fran Van Overbeeke. Welcome to urban update. Thanks for coming in. Sasha. Let me start with you. Talk to me about the concept for this new mission, the field to shelter. How did this come about for the pine street inn and food for free . Weve been working with pine street inn for five years now bringing them primarily rescued food and purchased food. But we have had this field, we years. And we grow organic food on that and we distributed it to the agencies that we serve. We really use it as a tool to engage volunteers. So if our five years anniversary with the pine
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