Areas history and literary scene. We speak with author robert gross on his book the minuteman underworld. My rude rage of the flood, its april 3 unfurl. Here once the farmer stood and fired a shot her around the world. There is in the morning of april 19 that this exchange of fire took place. With just 2 to 3 minutes and yet, the 2 to 3 minutes, if you accept Ralph Waldo Emersons cover, with the two minutes exchanged the world. The shot heard around the world. The was historic. It was kind of a problem here and in the world i focus my story very much around everybody to this dramatic encounter, it was traumatic in that when the patriots marched with the kings troops, they dont actually know whats happening to them. They heard that there were people seeing flashes in the pan but the scout, he sticks around long enough to find out if they were firing bullets or not. So nobodys really certain whats going on. People have often said, what could inspire these farmers and shopkeepers and labo
In 2007. And the other is his integration of each one of the technologies. And those two stories come together. Why did you take that approach and just take us back to the start of the book project itself. Guest yell. Well, so the idea for the book really kind of began with sort of the start was a ship that this thing that is so fully integrate itself into a lease my own life and the life of my peers and so on and so forth with something that it really didnt understand particularly well. A lot of us had that moment i think when we are abruptly and suddenly to go without it for a second when in this case i locked it in a cab. When i was retrieving the phone i would stand in line at dmv. Of course i jettison all my responsive as for the day immediately, put off the meetings at work, put off any other obligation. You just get the phone back. Thats what you do when you lose your phone. Its kind of like started gelling in my head like what is it about this one device that gives it his power