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CSPAN2 Eyes On The Street January 30, 2017

Data driven, then whose data is it and what choices on the election and what do they want to predict and what outcomes are desired. Then, you know, i think it would be problematic thing for the future of cities to to be invested in some technological hope and savior. Just briefly, i think, theres been a big shift in our cultures relationship to expertise in general. I think at the time that jane was doing her work, it was in the after world war ii when generals, Army Generals had defeated the nazis and the japanese and collectively as a culture, i think, we trusted in the expertise of the experts. The experts know, so we might as well listen to them because they know so much more than we do and i think jane was one of the first i couldnt be true, but sometimes seems that way, one of the first to say, nonsense, the experts are just as often wrong as anybody else and then the vietnam war came along and we started hearing about body counts and we started hearing about the expertise of the military saying this and that. It was all bogus and, i think, in the years since we have developed a healthy inclination to accept as gospel the expertise and if the smart city people are saying this particular technology will be the solution to our problems, i think jane and all of us should be highly skeptical. I just want to add jane was skeptical because they were often planning based on what was happening today was happening in a continuum which was immediately wrong after the plan was published. Years ago she said something really funny to me and this was preinternet but it was computer period. All of the people think because of new technologies that cities are irrelevant, why are the plains empty. [laughter] the first thing that happened after the computer came out, the internet, was the internet coffee, people need to be with people, the Technology Comes and goes but its still cities or peoplebased and thats where jane always came back to and a lot of things she would say, its great, its useful but its a fad. Its still the basic elements are still the same. Did you want to add . Amy, do we have time for one more . No. Okay. Thank you all for coming and we have another [applause] take the program list with you, come back, we have more to come and we will go on. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] book tv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you. Tweet us, twitter. Com booktv or post a comment on our facebook page. Facebook. Com booktv. Welcome to authors voice, you are watching house divided. A program on authors voice signing network. This program is dedicate today books about abraham lincoln, the civil war, the u. S. Presidency and general americana. Now, while we are live, send in questions, please send in your questions for our author. Please tell us who you are and where youre from because we want to know who is asking questions and you can do that by

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