Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose live at lunch where we bring you our programming during the lunchtime hour. Celebrating the release of livewire if at any time click the link to purchase a chat of the book on the website. Women to submit to the q and a box which can be found at the bottom of your screen be sure to put your question in the q and a. On to the main event doctor David Eagleman is a New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist work at the National Nonprofit institute an adjunct assert. Best known for his work on time perception, his new book livewire also misled from anastasia to dreaming that revolutionized how we think he will discuss bio hackers human using echolocation in the present and future of ai im so here one excited to hear him talk today. The floor is all yours and then i will be back to moderate q and a. Thank you its a great pleasure to be here i have been to politics and prose in person. Im sorry i cannot be there this year b
Today were seeing that loosen up. We really see a world where the founder was my guest a few there are managed liquidity or weeks ago. The companys stock priced at 39 cash programs. Companies need to manage that. Above expectation and rose we think that technology and global relationships help them steadily throughout the day. Manage that. Silicon Valley Companies are for a company like peloton marching toward ipo even as we before it files to go public, worry about the days ahead. When we hear theyre about to go public, its because katie roof we have the ceo of forge, which wrote about it in the wall allows employees of private companies to sell shares before street journal. The company goes public. But youve got access to data in these companies, buying, and selling and pricing. Is there some sort of lets start with this idea of information in what youre able these companies that are not yet public that are so big. To see doesnt have to be give me a list. Peloton, in any company in w
The Company Stocks of prices at 39 and rose steadily. Even as we worry about the economy ahead. Silicon companies are marching towards this. The ceo of forge which allows employees to sell shares before the company goes public. Lets start with this idea of these companies that are not yet public, that are so big. Give me a list. Spacex would be one. What else is on this list of companies we are waiting for . There are 40 companies today that are the size of what used to be a large Cap Public Company that are still private and these companies are now staying private for an average of 12 years, 10 years ago or 6 years. We talked about why companies are staying private, whats your opinion on it . Companies are trying to change the world and building something new and global. In the case of spacex, the most Cost Effective way. It is taking longer for them to mature. Because they have such great access to capitol, internationally, they dont rely on previous systems of Venture Capital. There
This is to break that advantage other than disadvantage and finally from sheila who says the main goal is to make a few people very rich see their transition. The level and whats next after globalization is a book written by former princeton academic Michael Sullivan it told us an analysis of the transition and World Economics finance and power as either globalization ends i guess we need to new Power Centers and institutions the author tells alex why we all need to be ready for this change. Michael sullivan this new book the leveling you say that the end of the globalization evil inevitable how can that be when weve got the great Global Companies bestriding the planet are not the biggest manifestation of globalization whats happening to these everyday work we are reminded of the fracturing of the globalized world we have a trade war going on there is a democratic dispute going on in hong kong those big tech and commercial titans are being regulated in europe theyre being closed out of
Everyday work we are reminded of the fracturing of the globalized world we have a trade war going on there is a democratic dispute going on in hong kong those big tech and commercial titans are being regulated in europe theyre being closed out of the Chinese Market and theyre also vulnerable i think in the states too to the slowing Economic Cycle so everywhere we look globalization is beginning to petero trade as percentage of g. D. P. Is falling the flow of ideas the flow of people is slowing and what i think is happening is maybe not a rerun of the 1000 twentys thirtys as some scaremongers say but were entering into a multipolar world where instead of having you know everything bundled and tied together you have 3 big regions the u. S. China central asia and then europe or the European Union so to defy the globalization is globalization in your view the freedom of Movement People goods that the great increase in world trade it was the the the knocking down of the combination of curre