I am also very troubled about how deep the political divide is mainly between democrats and republicans but even within the two parties it is restive, it is not settled. People are not happy. For a lot of reasons. We are racially divided you saw that terrible shooting in georgia that got into the news the last couple of dates. Were trying to figure out what it means to be american and weve talked about that many times the book project has helped me a lot to reflect on that larger question and he began with a pretty ordinary way. I was writing a series of blog posts. I wouldnt call them quite articles. It began around 2010. All around the one 50th anniversary of our civil war. In the idea was that we could find younger historians who were comfortable in and the digital the environment to put up more articles about history in the online New York Times that they would have been able to put in the printed paper when it started the online New York Times was kind of like a backyard that no o
Technology is a major part of our lives. Its utility that we can use to make sure that we are economically feasible into the future, that we are efficient in a use of energy. It enables our society i think to be far more productive than our 20th century industrial age. We were looking at the fact that so much of what already exists in society is connected. And what our smart cities caucus does is it looks at four different areas of how communities are connected. One is connectivity. The other principle being sustainability. The other being mobility, and in the workforce. And how all of those components Work Together to make sure that in the 21st century our Civil Society is given the opportunity to really reach its full potential, utilizing the technological advantages advances weve had in this age. Host you refer to it as the utility. Do you see as a utility like plumbing and electricity and streets and things like that . Guest it something we used but its more of an infrastructure, r
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How many new things you see for the first time and people try to ask my new to because its been a year, then you realize that someone who is not in the industry susan and i both came out of the industry and we are pulling behind and doing what we can to stay up, but we are trying to take a slightly behind Technology Knowledge and relate to people. One of the big reasons we started the internet of things caucus was to help educate other lawmakers about where technology is headed. So that you have a good basis understanding where policy might be impacted or needs to be impacted. The other role we play is to make sure that we have laws uptodate where the world actually works. We have outdated laws to ecommerce and people having cell phones and all information transmitted not only in the u. S. But around the world. We have a lot of work to do to keep policy uptodate and keep future looking as well. Host what is specific petes of policy you would like to see updated . Guest one is reform to
Too close to call, 36 day battle to decide the 2000 election which came out in 2001. The nine, inside the secret world honor Supreme Court from 2007, the oath, the obama white house, and the Supreme Court, from 2012, and your latest book, american heiress, he wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trials of patty hereto. Jeffrey toobin few for pending three hours on cspan. Guest what a treat. Thank you for the terrific callers and emails. Host come back anytime. Thank you very much. Cspan2, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. If you would not mind silencing your cell phones and making sure there on silent. We are recording this event. We also have cspan here with us today. So not having interruptions would be great. We will have about a onehour presentation with half of the time given to our authors presentation and the other have given to your questions. We have one microphone on the side of it if you