Longterm. Unfortunately because of the shortterm thinking that reigned supreme in this question of sustainability hasnt really come up at all. As i said before for all the money the International Community is spending on the Afghan Government to build the judiciary, the parliament to build capacity worldwide money is also going to warlords and strongmen. The u. S. Taxpayer dollars are still going to warlords and strongmen around the country and thats bad in and of itself but its also bad because it ensures continued weakness of the Afghan Government. So adjusting that will be the other aspect of the thing that the u. S. Should do. The last question im left here. You spoke about growing your beard out in getting a motorcycle and going and actually meeting with the taliban warlord. Can you speak a little more about that and were you ever afraid for your life at any point . Well you know, in 2008 in 2009 it was different than it is today. At the time the taliban headache coherent command
Lets get the lawyers out of this. Lets go back to the any act women. A littleknown obscure story and computing. They recruit young women, mostly mostly math majors from small, midwestern colleges bring them all to pennsylvania and decide that they are going to be assigned the task of programming this computer. Why are they simultaneously so obscure and yet plays such an Important Role . Partly because this happened during the war. Originally done to calculate missile trajectories for artillery tables. As the war is ending in 46 they realize that it has to do other things. I wanted to no if this Hydrogen Bomb concept will actually work. And women are the ones who understand how to program it they get written out because the boys with their toys thought that they were in charge, and the day that they unveil eniac finally in 1946 it is valentines day. The New York Times is there all sorts of dignitaries and finally show off this new machine. Jean jennings nick francis and others do the pr
[inaudible conversations] tom standage appeared on cspans communicators to discuss his latest book writing on the wall social media going back to the times of cicero. This is about 30 minutes. Bestselling author tom standage has a new book out called writing on the wall. Tom standage, what do cicero and twitter have in common . Guest well, the idea of the book is that social media is a very old idea. We think that its recent and that only people alive today have ever done it. But really what im arguing theres a very long and rich tradition of social media that goes back in fact to the era of cicero, the late roman republican of the First Century bc. The point is you dont need a Digital Network to do social media. If you have one it goes faster but cicero did it with papyrus rolls, and members of the legion were linked to him and they spoke to each other. And there were many other examples that occur throughout history. Martin luther, using pamphlets. Poetry. Tom paine and his pamphlet,
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