We are back live at the National Book festival. Were pleased to have join us now on our book tv set professor Thomas Malone of mit. Heres his most recent book. It is called super minds, the surprising power of people and computers, thinking together. Before we get into the topic of the book, professor, what is it that you do at mit . Im a professor in the sloan school of management and director of the mit center for collective intelligence. Pleasure to be a here. What kind of Management Training do you give at mit . I teach two main courses, one is an mba course on strategic organizational design, about how to organize companies in different situations including Innovative New things, like w i wikipedia for instance and the other is a leadership workshop help students learn about different capabilities for leadership. What is the collective Intelligence Center . We study the kinds of things that i wrote about in my book. Collective intelligence i define in a very general way as groups
Refugee but my parents were refugees. Theres a fracturing of the share experience. Me life was different in the United States, the life was different in canada, my sisters life is different in england. Did all right relatively speaking but that vastly overlambingers and yep oliving together in the same language and the same cultural context, the same as it were social abilities, we share that experience, unity of time and place and experience that we shared, and then gets fractured and get bren up. Even if we had moved to the same place, there would have been a fracture because i spoke english better, was not a professional who lost his job to migrate. Had not lost my social contact and so on. So what happen is this fracturing of a shared experience within the family and one of the ways again to agree with reyna is to tell stories or write to build the bridges, theres something about building a bridge between the new country and old country within this community, within a family, multi
The rich men north of richmond. Martha that is part of the blue collar balance order uniting people worldwide even though thedi media try to use i to divide. Of rich r men north of richmond is the song and defied gravity the number one song on apple musics global chart not just in the u. S. And heres the reason why. Look at the faces of people listening to this song for the first time, all races all backgrounds blown awaynt by how much it resonates with them how much they relate to it. Oliver ant anys balance order heights the plight of Working Class people who struggle to make enough money while as he puts it the politicians enrich themselves. Here is just some of the reactions. Watch. This is the song for america, this is the and then from 2023 moving forward this is the anthem. The truth brings tears to a real mans eyes, man. And im crying as well, man, cause ive been exactly where yall have been, man. B martha incredible the reaction this is getting. Olivers song taps into somethin
This runs 20 minutes. Next up tracy owens director u. S. Public affairs. [applause] good afternoon. As you just heard my name is tracy owens i am the Public Affairs for the u. S. At sage. I am also very proud alumnus. [applause] absolutely. I am grateful for the opportunity it has provided me. I am even more grateful and proud of the opportunities it is continuing to provide for students. You will hear a little bit more about that later but before i discuss more about morehouse i like to tell you more about sage. For those of you who do not know sage is a 50 tech Company Founded just over 40 years ago about 10 billion pounds was 11000 colleagues globally. Sage is a Market Leader in accounting, financial, hr and Payroll Technology for small and mediumsize businesses is about nine and a of the u. S. Economy. We enable them to streamline operations make more informed decisions and be more productive bring Business Owners and their workforces from repetitive Administration Tasks and enable
Joseph. Were happy to have you here. Always. People have things. Its summer. If they asked me next week, i would say no, im on vacation. Even to spend time with you, i would turn that down. You know what, i take everything you say seriously, because it just makes me, right, i believe you. Yeah. Theres no reason to not believe me. Its not necessarily sarcasm. Not necessarily. Lets take a check on u. S. Equity futures. Joe mentioned towards the end of the session, we came off in the middle with the higher beyond yields, take a look at how were set to open. Look looking to lose 8 at the open, the dow looking to lose 49. After a day of declines. The dow fell 291 points on track for the worst week since march. The dow, s p and nasdaq are down more than 2 of the week. For the dow, its the first time it closed below its 50day moving average since june. Check out the pullback in technology. We have been talking about this for some time. The declines are stark. Apple, meta, microsoft, each more