Get my steps in. Thank you guys also much for coming. Thank you for coming to wasnt center through the snow, sleet, whenever it is doing and on star wars day. Really appreciate it. I had the distinct pleasure of welcoming you to the Woodrow Wilson center and a lunch of the book designing reality. Launch. My name is Elizabeth Newbury and of the director for the Gains Initiative here at the Wilson Center in the science and Technology Innovation program. This means when im not introducing world famous authors i Transit Research ideas into one most dynamic mediums we have public engagement, gains. As alan might agree, games are one of the best tools we have for translating complexity into an accessible, and there i say fun, format. Translating complexity something we specialize in here for the science and Technology Innovation program from diy bio labs and makers basis for help innovation to science fighting zika to cybersecurity laws for congressional staff. We specialize in being the bri
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Of it, the philosophy of it. We wanted to be accessible. [applause]the joining us here on our bookot tv set is over Steven Johnson. Before we get into the most recent book, you are listening pretty intently to what james glick had to say. Guest hes one of my favorite authors. His book, chaos, which i read in college was the first Popular Science book that i read in my entire life that really started me thinking that i could potentially be a Science Writer becausbecause ive not been intd in science at all. If he were still talking i would say we should go back and listen more to him. But you have to listen to me now. Host your most recent book is called wonderland. Recent what were you trying to explore . Guest if the history of what human beings have done for the fun of it. For the delight in it, for the feeling of play and amusement. And it came out of the book how we got to now, and the pbs series i did which was a history of innovation and things in the modern world that we take for
But i also have been an embassador and im capitalist and im really serious about that at work. Whats been your best seller . Poverty, president regan author. What are some of the things you invested in and succeeded . A company is the leading Knowledge Network company and creates its a Software Program that connects you to consultants and find hundreds of thousands of consultants. Its been tremendous success. The company has made many billions of dollars and i was the first major outside investor. But also a company which is a fabulous next Generation Internet company, renders 3d images across the internet and has signed agreements with the National Hockey league to actually transmit 3d images of hockey games. It could be a shirt hanger, just a simple antenna rather than a complex Computer System that is involved in these big cell towers you see everywhere, so ubiquitous and tennis. Mostly invisible antennas, so and then i have been supporting a Company Called him use soft, which wants
Host George Gilder how many books have you written . Guest 17 that won its 18th. Host what are the topics . Guest politics politics, marriage and family, sex, money family, sex, money, wealth, poverty, a technology technology, microchips, life after television. Knowledge and power which i really think is my books that sums up all the various subjects through the exposition of the information theory which is of major scientific breakthrough of the century is information theory behind all of our technology and i think the best explains our economy. Host du a device as an author or consultant . I am not a consultant paul lai was named the 27th most influential consultant. They used to be a partner of mine. But i am chiefly a writer but also i have been an investor in a venture capitalist. And i. M. Serious about that it has supported me as much as my books over the years. Host which is your best seller . Wealth and poverty president reagans most quoted living offer. Host as a venture capi