Middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. My job was to stand off the house floor and ask congressman what they thought of the days news. So i quit my job and moved to cambodia. I spent a year and a half there reporting on events there, and it was an amazing experience. The country was emerges from 30 years of civil war, from a genocide in which one in four people dies of murder, starvation and disease. What really struck me when i was there, the human resilience. D. C. , theres a lot of data there and information bush to be seeing peoples lives and how they bounce back, it started to change the way i looked at journalism and what i wanted do. And when i came back, i wanted to write more about the theme of human resilience and i found that in the United States, some of the most exciting stories of human resilience are being unleashed by technology. Thats what my book is about engineering. My presentation is less data driven than some of the stuff. What i tried to do is put some of trends