Heres a look at some authors recently featured on booktvs after words, our weekly interview program. Walleye traveled the world for many a time, i am a man of the south. I actually never thought of myself that way, but Come International i realized someplace i grew up, its a unique demonstration of the american aesthetic, that we have in the south. One gregariousness and one of passion and one of great division, of great opinion. But its just a very unique to have that sort of epiphany and awakening today. It reminded me of what i went through in new orleans. I am an actor but i first and foremost are from new orleans. That northernmost caribbeacaribbea n city, right . The last bullying in. The city that care forgot, the big easy. Right . And its a place but it is so unique and so defining of who i am it is like a loved one, a family member, someone, i speak of the events of pursue, someone who is near and dear to my heart. So 10 years ago when the disaster of the flood of new orleans that happened during katrina, i thought i had lost it. I thought that she had died. Many of us can remember where we were when we heard those fateful notes, you know what it means to miss new orleans and miss her each night and day . And ill tell you one more, when you miss the one you care for, more than in this new orleans. We thought she was gone forever. It was a funeral procession. That storm destroyed 80 of the city, and i knew that 20 years from now some kid was going to come up to me and say, in new orleans darkest hour, what did you do . And i wanted to be able to have an answer to that. So i decided, im an artist first and foremost, and i will respond as an artist. So i along with the creators, the founders of the classical theatre of harlem in new orleans, in new york, did the production of waiting for this existential play from 50 years ago that is a real, distant, about two men and a deserted void of nothingness, a road in a tree and lack of census and stability are looking for an entity outside of themselves find a purpose, to find a sense of their own humanity, who they are and what do they stand for. Waiting, something outside of themselves. And there was an image two men in new orleans on a raft in the water, abandoned, slightly looking at something in the air but captured the flavor a classically, classic in the sense that it speaks to our humanity no matter where we are from across time and space, from nazi occupied paris were mr. Samuel beckert wrote the play to sarajevo in 1984 with the to the plate minutes of the balkan wars with so many people were suffering violence, desolation of that we saw the ugly part and always see the ugliest part of human nature when we see war and violence. To san quentin where was prohibited from being performed because it moved the inmates took place where they can actually see vision and purpose to their lives outside of what they saw as their hopelessness as they were incarcerated. And then we went to new orleans and saw the lower ninth ward and realized in the past emptiness miles rubber everything was destroyed we were on Hallowed Ground and saw what the flood did and how many lives were destroyed, and hundreds of people have died. Are not Hallowed Ground we said, lets do the play here. Lets respond to what is happened to our city, to our community here. And thats why decided to do the play. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. This weekend on cspan cities tour along with our Comcast Cable partners we will explore the history and literary life of californias capital city sacramento. On booktv. Elizabeth was the first to come to georgias defense and say, now that is not what happened. I know my george. I know the code of my george. He wouldnt have done that. And she stood up for him and championed his action, so it was elizabeth voice that rose to the top of all this are not only because she was a woman and people were paying attention to what she had to say because she wasnt georges wife but because she outlived all of them. Elizabeth doesnt die until 1933, and she is there for the 50th anniversary of the battle of little bighorn. She is there for all of history. So she can help shape what is being said about her husband. So it doesnt go so far the other and. On American History tv will tour the mansion once owned by california governor and Railroad Tycoon leland stanford. As a pro Union Civil War governor and railroad executive, stanford negotiated deals at the mansion to help complete the transcontinental railroad. Mr. Stanford was our last twoyear term governor. So he was elected and served all of 1862 and all of 1863, and he was part of a group of men who were merchants and they were politically active and had similar ideas, and stanford was the first candidate that was successfully elected as governor. He was her eighth governor and he was the first republican governor of california. Then we will visit the japanese american archival collection at Sacramento State university which includes letters, photographs, diaries and artwork from Japanese Community japaneseamerican communities following the attack on the island. Today, where innocent for sacramento histories and held the original records for the city and county of sacramento, and we go from the beginnings of the city in 1850 all the way up to present time. When you talk about the whole experience of coming to california to search for gold youll need your supplies, you probably wouldve gone and had your portrait taken in order to document yourself before your journey. One of the important thing she wouldve acquired once you got there was a map to figure where you need to go. This is a great map of the gold youll. This map wouldve folded up so they could have fit it in a pocket so everything was lightweight, compact, easy to travel with. This wouldve been an essential tool in this dates from 1849 to show miners were to go. You can see a quickly the business of mining the miners are producing all of these things and people are quickly making money off of the people who were looking for gold. This weekend watches cspan cities tour in sacramento beginning today at 2 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. The cspan cities tour working with the cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. Next up we bring you the tvs coverage of the seventh annual boston book festival which includes a discussion on veterans at a keynote lecture by Harvard University literary criticism Professor James would. But first heres a panel on terrorism and surveillance. Should i begin . Ginnie mae . Good morning, everyone. It is great to see on this Cold Saturday morning. I am Juliette Kayyem and wanted to moderate a great our ahead on a discussion of new threats in the modern age with three amazing authors who have contributed to dialogue that maybe weve been been having since the beginning of mankind. Center shafted is going to start. Im going to introduce the three authors and then let them speak achievements on the book, given the opportunity to tell you what the book is about and then i wouldve and moderated discussion so we can pull out some major things and then open it up to question and answer. As you know the books will be on still at the end of this and they will be available for signature and discussion. I want to start with my good friend doctor jessica stern. Jessica spent a career in counterterrorism and think about the threat that this nation and this world faces with government positions and academic ones. Is now a lecturer at harvard and a fellow at the Harvard School of public health. One of time magazines innovative winners. She is the author most recently of isis the state of terror and thats the book should be talking about today. Bruce schneier is the Security Technology and ceo of resilient systems. s latest New York Times bestseller is data and goliath the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world. Is also a fellow here at the center at Harvard Law School which many of you probably know about the center and its work in technology and innovation. And then Gabby Gabriella blum is the process of human rights and the american law at Harvard Law School where she focuses on international law, negotiations and the law of Armed Conflict which is also the faculty director of the program on national law. Her new book of which why isnt it here, i know because i read it, i want to get it right, the future of violence robots and germs, hackers and drones confronting a new age of threats is a recent contribution to this notion of asymmetric threats go these new things that are coming that are not exactly army but they are as risky sometimes as foreign armies. I want to start with jessica. Ihe details all of it about your book and research is something we talk a lot about today, isis. Thank you so much. I think i would just do what i think is new about this organization. First of all as you know it holds territory. It is very good at capital labor and brand. It raises money through oil sales. Their Oil Production is much more resilient than anybody anticipated. They also tax refugee flows, so this is a perpetual resource for them. They treat refugees and then they tax the refugee flows. They are very good at attracting both locals, taking advantage of the disenfranchisement of sunni arabs, but also unprecedentedly good at attracting foreign fighters. About 30,000 foreign volunteers coming in, not just fighters but also they are seeking doctors, engineers, people like bruce, i hope to have it recruited you yet. They really are capitalizing on a frustration with modernity very well. We see converts flowing in, people who are looking for a pure, simpler life. I will stop there. I think thats two minutes. Thank you very much, bruce. I wanted to turn to you about your new book and the threats that you examined spent my book is called data and goliath which i think is a really cool title last night. You win, you win. The book is fundamentally about data, but our data, about the data that is produced either computers we interact with, our phones, computers, atm machines can all the computers in our life. And its about what happens to the data, who uses it which makes the book fundamentally about surveillance. This data is about asking all of our phones, and there are companies that know that they know we are in this room. I talk about corporate surveillance which is really how a lot of the data is generated, talk about government surveillance both Good Governance and bad governance, who use that data for the purposes which means the book is really about control. Its about persuasion on the advertising side. Its about social control and Law Enforcement on the government side. I talk about why this is important and why in society we need to think about our privacy with respect to data, and really im trying to talk about what i think is upon the issue of the Information Age which is how do we extract data value to the group while preserving individual privacy . For example, i used ways to cater this morning. Thats why i am on time. When ways works because everybody uses ways us under surveillance and you can tell me traffic patterns because of that. And enormous group of benefit, yet agile and using it is under surveillance. How do we balance this, whether its Law Enforcement or medical or traffic, or any other application . Im trying to explore those issues in the book. Gabby speak with you walk into your shout and find a spider come and a spider can do real and odds are its harmless come on this spider can be a many surveillance drone sent by your nextdoor neighbor who dislikes her noisy dog and she is willing pictures of the naked from a local sports bar on your iphone on the tv screens to the neighborhood. Or it could be more menacing possibility that is it is a lethal spider dont sent by your competitor. Is now vacationing by the use of a computer chip on the little mcgee drum to order, drug the drone to shoot a needle into your left side and then orders the drone back through a crack in the bathroom when an osha to selfdestruct. Gave us a spider in other words, operator are ever found. If you think this is scifi come you and i can both Purchase Online from private vendors a aa battery size of drone already, that comes with surveillance, with camera. And making illegal is just the next step. This is a little taste of what drones and robotics more generally are opening up as opportunities or harm. We all know about cyber, and bruce is the expert on that. Biotechnology is two steps ahead of us, but we can out again you and i purchased genetic sequences online a Lab Equipment in what used to be very complicated side of the most expert professors get it is becoming routine for the graduate student among us. What is common to all these technologies is that theyre becoming more accessible, cheaper, easy to handle and to distribute power. And to allow not just direct attacks or remote attacks as well. So together in combination they create many threats where every individual, group, corporation or state now poses a threat to any other individual, group, corporation or state anywhere around the world. And the question for us in the book is how do we govern a world of may 2 many threats . How do we govern it on the domestic level and how do we govern it on the International Level . That was a wonderful summer in some could ask some questions that draw out things and all the books for children and all the more tremendous and then hope for dialogue amongst the office. At the end i do want to get into the conflict and what do we do, what can people say you do by want to talk about this notion of asymmetric threats. Your book, bruce, weve had a notion of asymmetric threat, but the revolutionary war, rebellions, Freedom Fighters them whatever you want to call them, that nations have always faced asymmetric threats that are challenges. In what ways is the modern age different . But in what ways is it similar to challenges that we faced in the past . Given that it seems Like Technology is going faster than anyone can respond to at any given time . I think this is the same all three books, the notion of a democratization of tactics and weaponry. If we walked outside and saw a tank with widow a military was involved because only military can afford tanks. Thats a really nice shorthand that weve been using to figure out who is attacking us. In cyberspace, with emerging technologies, and actually isis is an example of tactics are democratizing nations and nonstate actors to corporations and maybe individuals. So todays top secret nsa programs become tomorrows ph. D. Theses. The stuff all flows downhill. Remember last november when sony was attacked, there was a debate, the United States legitimate debate among experts whether the attack was perpetrated by north korea, covered with a 20 billion military budget, or two guys in a basement somewhere. Thats extraordinary that we cant tell the difference. And i think this speaks to isis as an organization that the nonnationstate actor but its acting kind of nationstate in the way we dont like because liberals about nationstates that tend to work. Or you look at some of these emerging i think catastrophic risk whether its bio or nano, these technologies which you think of it as only the purview of government or some government, democratizing and answer them. I think we are all trying to deal with how to maintain security in this world of democratized threats. Jessica . I completely agree. I dont have anything to add. I think whats also interesting is that we had i think both the before 9 11 even now when we talk about isis or separate category, the sense that they are the National Security threats and fear of personal security threats and you can somehow draw a line of whats the basis of the military at the defense establishment and was the basis of the police department. Part of what the democratization of if it does is it blurs those lines. We saw several new pollution incidents of people just flying drones near airports and kind of near misses with passenger airliners were some kind and a drone during the u. S. Open into a stadium. Those were not even malicious, intent, operations but it tells you what is possible out there. So its not just a nationstat nationstates, its sort of one of the motivations why do people do these things and blurring the lines of how we think about regulating National Security and regulating every Day Technology that we use and rely on speed some of this is good. We like it when individuals have lets think of syria, iran, china. We want this democratization of power. What the state of less power and the dissidents, the integration of more power. Theres this good and bad. What i would say is i see very much related to juliettes work, but believe it or not moms are absolutely critical to stopping the flow of foreign fighters. They are in many ways more important than the Law Enforcement. I have been doing work in the somali refugee community, every kids who are attracted to the alshabaab, now they are attracted to isis, their moms cannot be elected and because i dont speak english and they certainly dont speak internet which is a big problem. We need to go get trained. One of these things, i will end on that, but one thing that jessica, where you differ our isis, that threat differs, and i will be, what i want, the cynic here, so what you all describe is threats. Gabby ambers describe our threats and they are scary, but okay, whatever, they might be that anything things happen here or there, but land is what matters to the enemy. And its where jessicas work with isis really does it differ