Good morning and welcome to street signs. Im Joumanna Bercetche and im Julianna Tatelbaum these are your headlines french lucxury brands after the response to the Digital Services tax basic resources underperform after President Trump reforms tariffs on brazil and argentina. The 70th anniversary of nato as tensions continue saying Member States must stand together im looking forward to the leaders meeting on wednesday because when there are differences, its even more important we sit down and address these facetoface as well do on wednesday. And the overhaul gets a warm welcome as italys largest lender puts 8,000 jobs and 500 branches on the chopping block a warm welcome to street signs. You can see the european luxury stock is under pressure following the double tariff threat washington is putting levees on french goods including handbags, cheese and champaign the move comes in response to the new Digital Services tax the u. S. Also says it may raise tariffs on a variety of goods afte
Quickly but so is our adaptation to it arent we overdramatizing the fact of the digitalisation the internet and other phenomena brought on by the 4th Industrial Revolution well well we dont really know i mean its a bit like things like demographics where youve got rapidly aging societies were not entirely sure whats going to happen because its never happened before and yes people point to the industrial level revolution saying its all happened before but equally in the context of losing jobs and other jobs being created but it does seem slightly different this time i mean its more than just ways of making things ways of living its a bit broader than that potentially this time and i think we need to be quite careful about things and the thing im very disappointed at the moment is possibly get more into the so philosophical ethical area is theres very little discussion about what all of this technology is ultimately for it seems to be an end in itself a lot of the time now ive seen you w
Not its not very different i mean i acquired this and i still think slightly ludicrous job title but since having written a book about 11 years ago about what i thought would happen in the in the future and ive always used the future as an excuse to engage with people about what theyre doing right now and what they might like to do next so im somewhat cynical about a lot of the stuff that surrounds the socalled industry but i think it is quite a useful thing to do i know that you believe that the next 50 years of Human History will be determined by our relationship with the machines and i think this is a very popular notion nowadays but it strikes me as a little bit. Isnt Human History always altima to the determined by our relationship with ourselves rather than the tools we use well its everything i think one of the mistakes a lot of technology. Making is to purely look at technology in a very linear fashion and you have to consider the entire system the psychology the history Everyt
With the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments as well this is the Weekly International hello and welcome. Protests bolivia erupted this week after the countrys leader evo morales stepped on monday and fled to mexico. His supporters have since then been protesting against his resignation with police left more than 10 dead and hundreds injured. Well after morel his will as i stood some heard jeanine is proclaimed herself interim president of bolivia many experts state that was against the constitution she wasnt in line to be the next leader crucially though most of the army supported anya is. Her control r t z takes us through the evidence. You may have heard that bolivia has lately been celebrating a triumph of democracy the resignation yesterday of believe in president ever morales is a significant moment for democracy in the western hemisphere these events send a strong signal to the illegitimate regimes in venezuela nicaragua that democracy and the
Which is that we have fucking number we have the brains of the page the institutions of the medieval and the technology of the gods and he wasnt being terribly complementary i mean technology is accelerating extremely fast in certain areas computing and genetics primarily we still essentially have the same brains that we crawled out of caves with and there is a problem emerging that we either have to merge with the machines or reject or restrain some of this technology but the previous Industrial Revolutions also happened very quickly in a matter of day kids and to some extent they were far more dramatic in terms of changing peoples lifestyles and their values i agree technology is advancing very quickly but so is our ive taishan to it arent we overdramatizing the fact of the digitalisation the internet and other phenomena brought on by the 4th Industrial Revolution well well we dont really know i mean its a bit like things like demographics where youve got rapidly aging societies when