Been doing this for a long time and i have been doing this since before there were laws in this space so there were some responsibility but in a regular talk i give to businesses right now is whether your data obligations because everybody has them now trade 47 states have passed certain data loss. Kentucky just past one this last month to come into the rest of the world. But its interesting, you have those in california has done things such as almost having a right to erase your past while on social media if you were a teenager. So god forbid any of us would have said things we were embarrassed about when we were a teenager and or posted them on line. That is where the California Legislature is coming from. Is a coming from the police . A little bit of both but theres a lot coming from the state legislature. Our good friends across the street here have been looking at this issue and have 20 or 30 acts in the statutes and the space up there looking at year after year after year but the
Coming up, big ackman losing the bid of allergen and over 2 billion on the deal. Thats why the ceo said hes still suing for the back room tactics and valiant hear what was said and if theres moves to close that loophole to engineer a scenario in the first place where he won no matter the outcome. Fascinating story. I mean, just outwitted everybody on that one. Was it ethical . Elon musk warned here that robots may turn on humans. He said it with a straight face. Now, he says it could happen this decade. And by my calculation we have about five years left in this decade. Well tell you why elon is moving up the timetable and look at how real the threat of robots to hubls really is. Yeah. The story yeah. Strange times. Okay. Look, the dow up 16. S p up 2. The nasdaq is a little bit negative and fascinating about the period as they say never short a dull market or what have you, were climbing to newer and newer highs all the while actual volatility in the market at multiyear, sometimes mul
Russia turkey israel, lot of different other countries, u. K. And canada and really trying to understand their views on privacy. Whats interesting is they do draw the line theres a little different than how we think about it. So for example in the u. K. They see privacy is a right as it relates to businesses collecting your data. But they have no problem snapping your picture everywhere you go in the u. K. They are some of the most photographed citizens in the world so its interesting to see that. If you are getting ready to live or your children are getting way are getting ready to look another country or do business in another country youll definitely want to go to the book and look for some of the different differences between america from our point of view and those countries and their point of view on privacy. We thought it made it richer to explore what the whole world is doing and this and that in contrast and compare it to what we have. Is a possible globally to wipe out all yo
Me it is a lot or powerful and moving and haunting and meaningful if you will dont know. This story is obscure enough and the way it plays out it has a certain power if you dont know. You can google it. This is nonfiction and history and it happened and if you have to know you can do that. But i would encourage you not to do that. I would encourage you to just go with the flow. The last hundred pages go by quickly. I think they are more powerful if you dont know. Are you aware that the smithsonian holds jeannette artifacts . Yes, i do. Have you seen them . Yes. They are at the navy academic, smithsonian and National Archive has stuff, and stuff in San Francisco as well. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming. I will sign books down here. Right . Form up the chairs first and line them up solid. Thank you. Our special booktv programming over the next several hours focuses on Technology Beginning the the second machine age work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologie
Good evening, and welcome to tos meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where youre in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at commonwealthclub. Org. Im Andrew Leonard from salon. Com, your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee who are researchers at the Mit Sloan School of management. Erik is the directer of the mit center for Digital Business and andrew is the Principal Research scientist. The two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with their selfpublished book, race against the machine, which kind of coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is really beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. They followed this up with a bigger book, the second machine age work, progress and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. And its really, i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is. In the San Francisco and greater b