My cohost and digital producer, wajahat ali is here bringing in all of your feedback. Waj, one of the largest segments of the shared economy is sharing a room in your home, renting out a room or your entire home, and we were talking about this earlier. Its kind of a weird concept. Im the paranoid son of immigrants. I dont even want my family members staying with me. To have a stranger live in my room, seeps dubious, but. Yeah, indeed. Which goes back to what we were saying about lending your house to a stranger. Would you do that . Or lend your car . Or how about leave your dog with someone that you just met on the internet. Average citizens are turning to just that. Its called the sharing economy. People with stuff that they are not using rent it to people who want it, and it has evolved into a 26 billion a year industry. Everything from a 12,000 handbag that can be yours for an evening for 100 bucks, to a weekend surfboard, 2hour lawn mower, or your very own dog for an afternoon. Its
My cohost and digital producer, wajahat ali is here bringing in all of your feedback. Waj, one of the largest segments of the shared economy is sharing a room in your home, renting out a room or your entire home, and we were talking about this earlier. Its kind of a weird concept. Im the paranoid son of immigrants. I dont even want my family members staying with me. To have a stranger live in my room, seepsubious, but. Yeah, indeed. Which goes back to what we were saying about lending your house to a stranger. Would you do that . Or lend your car . Or how about leave your dog with someone that you just met on the internet. Average citizens are turning to just that. Its called the sharing economy. People with stuff that they are not using rent it to people who want it, and it has evolved into a 26 billion a year industry. Everything from a 12,000 handbag that can be yours for an evening for 100 bucks, to a weekend surfboard, 2hour lawn mower, or your very own dog for an afternoon. Its a
My cohost and digital producer, wajahat ali is here bringing in all of your feedback. Waj, one of the largest segments of the shared economy is sharing a room in your home, renting out a room or your entire home, and we were talking about this earlier. Its kind of a weird concept. Im the paranoid son of immigrants. I dont even want my family members staying with me. To have a stranger live in my room, seepsubious, but. Yeah, indeed. Which goes back to what we were saying about lending your house to a stranger. Would you do that . Or lend your car . Or how about leave your dog with someone that you just met on the internet. Average citizens are turning to just that. Its called the sharing economy. People with stuff that they are not using rent it to people who want it, and it has evolved into a 26 billion a year industry. Everything from a 12,000 handbag that can be yours for an evening for 100 bucks, to a weekend surfboard, 2hour lawn mower, or your very own dog for an afternoon. Its a
Award, and Everybody Knows about this in iceland, how i was. That part of your life. Yeah. Most people are familiar with my story. And i thought because i couldnt remember, this may be something that i made a decision to close down, the same thing, maybe just saved my life. And i just started crying because i didnt know. And i had these times when, again, i was so exhausted, so tired. Ive never experienced anything like this in my life, having to understand something that you so desperately dont want. You can watch this and other programs on line at booktv. Or booktv. Org. Up next, Lawrence Goldstone recounts the competition between Wright Brothers and Glenn Curtiss to be the predominate name in manned flight. This is about one hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. We would like to welcome you all to the rogers memorial library. My name is penny wright. Im the director of adult programs here and we are very delighted to have a discussion tonight by an esteemed, acclai
Technology sovereignty, command, control over all of our social institutions. In other words, the book is about how american has developed a new religion, as it were, and the religion is its faith in that Human Progress and technological innovation are the same thing and that paradise can be achieved through greater and greater commitment to technology. Cspan what is technology . Guest i had to define it in the book rather broadly because not only do i include machinery Like Television and computers and all of that, but also techniques. I call them invisible technologies because most people dont think of them as a sort of machinery things like statistics and polling and bureaucratic forms any systematic and repeatable technique that tends to cause people to constrain their thinking about the world. Cspan we talked a number of years ago about television. What impact is technology having on television, and whats the impact on the country . Guest one of the reasons, brian, that i felt i d