The Incoming Biden Administration i thought we should begin with kind of the big picture that you lay out in the book when people hear the title they might say of course. I think many people may not fully understand. Taking the time to talk about this book and thank you to cspan for having me here to talk about it as well. That isnt a surprise for anyone but what has been happening over the last several decades is our economy has been highly concentrated and theres been consolidation on an ongoing basis in every sector of the economy so we hear a lot about but not only are we talking about food or agriculture in the industry you will have a monopoly problem and im also talking about the duopoly is there are harms that flow from this that i want to highlight to help them understand what it means for their everyday life and how it affects them. As you write about, it is the Cable Service and industries. Can you talk about how we got to this point you sort of explain in the book that ther
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Mr. Baker, this becoming age of mobility. You write did that so this book is about. What you mean about that pretty. John its an information revolution. Weve been watching it for the last half of century. It spread into computers and overwhelmed media and advertising in the spread into telephones and we are carrying on the internet wherever we went. And now in this next stage, the internet and the mobile machines we will be caring for they will be carrying us around so i think it is going to be an age in which all kinds of new choices going to surface for us and we are going to be able to, go a lot of places and will have a big effect our cities. And at same time, companies and city governments are going to be able to manage our movements and that will raise all kinds of questions about privacy. So is just the next stage of the internet revolution. It. Imagine a scenario, los angeles, 2028. What should be expect. One thing about information revolution is you cant bet on certain things.
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