Of failure. Of course the reality is the reverse. The more you post about failure. In one of the chapters i attended a conference, and one of the speakers there was a young man who boasted now he is the ceo of the work, the darling of Silicon Valley. But in his speech he boasted about being sued by record label for a quarter of a billion dollars is he had a company that legitimized. So the cult of failure is really one of the most irritating aspects. You have people like tim oreilly, very wellknown publisher. But the real truth is they are the winners. The real failure is people who dont have jobs, people who are not employed, people who are underemployed and can get in the college. They dont go around. Do you ever say you are a failure . I think this is one of the reasons why Silicon Valley is so profoundly out of touch with the rest of the world because it is the one sector and the American Economy that is doing well, the one sector driving innovation and change. When you have a cult of failure where did you grow up . London, north london. Cspan what was your life like . Guest middle class, jewish. For those of your viewers, what is the middle and lower class in new york . I had aspecialized and balkan history it is a franchise, very exclusive events. They like to think they are improving. Six or 7,000. You can put on an event. A lot less exclusive. The main character. I found them in harlem. Have you ever been to one . No, i watch them online. They pay expenses. You get to meet interesting people. I spoke just before Steve Wozniak, the cofounder of apple. He said my speech made him cry. It certainly had an impact. More than one clip. We will watch this. We are data. That isthat is the thing that Steve Wozniak for better or worse put into motion, the industry that most of us are involved. And as we look at each other in the future and the latter part of the 21st century we will see data, information, and indeed one company in Silicon Valley he may have heard of it called google are designing glasses which when you put on the oc these physical . Questionmark spectator. Bang bang. That is cspan it refers to a song. That was the theme of the show. What are you trying to do in a speech like this . That particular event which is the largest in the world, brussels, downtown brussels, the tickets are relatively affordable. So the audience will be made up of technology students. I did a similar one in budapest. Trying to engage. Everyone gets 16 minutes to speak. And you are supposed to make it engaging, memorable experience. So it is just off the top of your head. Off the top of my head. They like to get people to prepare. I never do. And i can onlyi can only get motivated if im in front of people. The books are always late for my articles are always late. So the thought for 3,000 people, you dont want to screw up. It is an invigorating experience. For me the experience is excellent. I have been able to prosper in this economy because of it. And i dont necessarily celebrate that because there are many very fine writers who struggle in front of a live audience. The real opportunity now the digital age ironically is the physical experience. But the digital has done is modified the copies. No one pays for anything online. Once that is done is made the physical experience a lot more valuable. Is why people go to events. That is made us want to physically made people more. Theyve always be the physical experience. But so do well in this world particularly as an entertainer you have to be able to perform 20 after the above entertain. Cspan in your talk, we will see an expert an excerpt of it, the vertical clip, and where did you get the idea . The vertigo clip of Jimmy Stewart. Well, for me. I think i 1st saw when i was about 16. Its one of those films. Because there are so many layers. And of course for me it was a wonderful opportunity. Because i have always thought of technology as a thing that you fall in love with and you think your falling in love with one thing and youre falling in love with something quite different. Vertigo is the ultimate movie of falling in love with something that doesnt really exist. Sure most of your viewers are familiar with the movie. A film about aa man who falls in love with the blonde who turns out to be a brunette. Falls in love with what he thinks is a blonde beautiful woman who turns out to be a brunette from kansas who works as a shopgirl. Cspan lets watch it. We will watch this clip. Here she goes. He has not even matter command is not even talk to her. The great slovenian philosopher call this the parallax view. Here she comes. Beautiful blonde american errors from San Francisco who drives a green jaguar around town. He has fallen in love. What does vertigo have to do with information and data . The truth of the movie is that the blonde is not really a blonde. She is a brunette shopgirl from kansas. All women from kansas i think work in stores. And he is about to be set up , about to be sucked into this war tax of heartbreak and murder, and that is what we are here to talk about today. Because just as Jimmy Stewart we are being sold something also which is a scam, something which is undermining who we are. Cspan what is the scam . Guest the scan is the ideal of being able to self publish online. The scam is facebook, instagram, twitter. I am is easy to seduce is anyone, so i want some of these things. The scam is the idea that these platforms give us the opportunity to tell the world what we think all bc, the contributor photography, music, movies, allow us to become online bloggers and photographers. But the scam is that we are being used. The very busy venture capitalists the data economy that we are the ones who package the product because with these companies are doing is learning more and more about us from our behavior, what we publish, photographs, ideas, what we buy and say and dont say. And learning about us they are creating a phantom and then they transform us, repackage us as product. We are the ones being sold. Not only are we working for free but we are then being sold. It is the perfect fit chart movie. Cspan what is a phantom can opt to come . Guest early 19th century british totalitarian philosopher, and he invented this idea, prison which had a tower which could see everyone. He believed that the idea could be used in schools and hospitals. Believe that this would create discipline in the new industrial society. Written extensively. Interestingly enough that felt inspired john stuart mill. Miller reacted against an order book in which he went beyond utilitarianism, the pleasure and more complex terms. I love the idea. He and his ideas play a central role. Cspan you mentioned twitter. I want to show you a list. The top ten people in the United States have 200 followers and look at the numbers and just tell us what this means when you see it. We have katy perry, the most followers at 63 million, justin bieber, 59 million, barack obama at number three. Taylor swift at 50, youtube, 48 million followers. Lady gaga, britney spears. The bottom of the ten. Justin timberlake a 40 million, finally ellen to generous. What does that say . The internet again has created a world, not what they call the flat world. It is rocky, hilly, this is the old world. The winner take all system in which a tiny group of entertainers are controlling our attention. A very brilliant blogger, business writer, i needed help burger has written an important part. And what she said is she compares the Digital Economy to the Old Industrial economy, the internet, the internet, democratize and sweep away the elderly, the record labels, but we have more of the same. What we have aa system where a tiny group of people control our attention. And if that is about enough, this economy is hollowing out the middle. The old entertainment economy, not defending the labels. They produced a lot of garbage and were corrupt. I dont deny any of that. But the infrastructure of the ecosystem of the middle class economy. They gatekeepers and editors , journalists, people who have regular middleclass. With the internet has done is swept away the middleclass. I dont think people have any role, and it enables a superstar class with 1,050,000,000 followers and destroy the old middleclass. This is a lose lose other than the Silicon Valley notion of winwin. Cspan the only person on the list is a politician. But i want to show you a clip. It is a seven minute video the day before he went to iowa to make a speech. Get it in the oval office. As president is using this media all the time. One of the things im going to make an early announcement about is the issue of getting faster. I want to take a look at what ive got here. This is internet download speeds. I can zoom up if you want. You have south korea, hong kong, tokyo, paris. These cities all have really fast access to the internet because they have made the investment in broadband. Right next to it you have seen your falls iowa. Billy have 40,000 people in cedar falls, but the reason they can compete is because citizens got together and made the investment to bring competition in and make sure the internet speeds were just as fast there is anywhere else. What is your reaction . Well, broadband is a tough issue. It is not an area that i am an expert in. What i would say is there is an exaggerated quality. Actually better in broadband and some people think. Having said that, i do like the korean model. I myself have no problems with investment in the same way as a total story, the internet came out. It came down as a topdown projects. So i am not an opponent of public investment. The 1st president has ever done this. The whole list of people at the white house the director of online engagement, 73,000 a year. Great for the office of digital strategy. Progressive media and a response. Makes 95,000 year. Then we have another right what has profile. 72,000 year guy. Video director of the office of digital strategy. There is more. Director of Digital Content and finally acting director for the office of digital strategy, 80,000 year men. Guest do you think they are overpaid . Cspan i think it is interesting and order your comment. What is the impact . Guest like cant comment on those guys. Used to be in charge of development. If not you can look it up online. I can google it. And theyre seems to be that intimacy that i find trouble. Because google has legend of one of the two or three most powerful companies in the world. If he surrounds himself with transportation policy come all of these people who used to work for forte, theyre would be a little troubled by that. Google has an agenda. They are the owner of youtube. It is not surprising because youtube is one of the biggest users of broadband on the web. So i think i am a fan of obama. If i did not i would have voted for obama. Im troubled by the way in which obama and the Company Seems to be a little too. And after the last election when obama made the announcement that he was going to sue the Network Neutrality legislation hes played in to the bogus of the fun notion. Trying to destroy. Large Companies Like youtube or netflix who has an agenda. Its a fight between Large Companies whether or not the should pay a toll. It doesnt pertain to ordinary Internet Users. It is not going to slow the network down. Down. It is an example of the way the internet gets used by certain marketing departments to exploit people and get involved in issues that are so complicated. Five people in washington know what Network Neutrality isnt you will get five different answers. The most complicated question of the 19th century as the eastern question. I think it was ever gladstone, there was no appetite. The 1st is mad. The 2nd is that in the 3rd is my wife percent right back. Network neutrality. These by various governments and eventually the catastrophe of the 1st world war and hopefully that will give us into another global war but it is an incredibly complicated issue being used by different groups to pursue their own agenda. Cspan someone you talk about in this book, a guy named kim bernerslee. We found this from it ted asked. This is a ten speech that he gave, fast talking, you have to listen carefully. How he fits. How about we do that. In a way the coming fundamental. What would be on your list . The student. Lets use the energy from the 25th anniversary. Do me a favor,. Cspan classrooms. It is many thousands of people online contribute to the creation of something, wikipedia is a crowd sourced and encyclopedia. If you like the internet you can think that man. If you dont you can blame him. That man is incredibly important. In 1989 when all our eyes are on the collapse of the berlin wall, we were told that history had come to an end, the 20th century was finished. That guy is just saw, a recent graduate of Oxford University a queens college, the same college that Jeremy Benton attempted 200 years earlier, the creator of the industrial complex. That man was at the siren Research Center in geneva. And he invented the World Wide Web. He did not invent the internet probably invented the World Wide Web that sat on top of the internet and made the internet accessible for everyone. The achievement of the World Wide Web was it took the internet are made it popular. The reason we bring in 1989 as we all thought history came to an end. And while emigre fan of his integrated meyer, and i think hes a great principle and grant men i would say that his romantic vision of the internet is putting everything together has me realizing when he stands stand there and talks about the bill of rights, i would stand there and say sure bills of rights are very nice but we have enough bills of rights. The internet is too much about the bill of rights. We are going to make the internet a habitable place. We are going to make the internet a successful base image that is going to be the opposite tour challenges of the 21st century life. We need to be responsible. The internet needs a sense of responsibility. Become respectable for our culture predicament thanks it was delivered in middle of night it was delivered in the middle of the night it was a gift to the people a reflection of our own virtue of good and of course the story is much its story is much more complicated. If we are going to make it a good place, if we are going to make it a reflection of our best qualities we need more responsibility and less rights. Cspan i want to bring up the tab thing again because it fits in. Guest are you trying to get an invitation . Cspan now im not at all. The reason i bring it up with it even exist without the internet and is not part of creating a community . Guest ted used to be a fairly exclusive small thing run by a guy whose name was sullivan in Southern California and then ironically enough a guy named Chris Anderson who had run a Publishing Company called Future Publishing which went bust after the first internet foam is one of the examples of an internet cowboy who tried to make a lot of money. One of his investments was ted and when Future Publishing went bust and he lost his job and i dont know what happened to him he bought ted and built it into a successful franchise. I think ted would exist. Ted is essentially a selloff. We dont rely on the internet. Theres a great first enlightenment. People want intelligent conversation. One of the reasons ted does so well is because her general media so bad, not just the internet and television. Theyre such an absence of serious thought and commentary that people want that not a thing. In the 21st century get a thing that ted offers us a valuable as network. Im ambivalent about that create it on like the networking but the challenge in this postindustrial world is to build their own personal brand. We are not going to be doctors or lawyers. We are not going to work report or kodak for the rest of our lives. We will be continually inventing and reinventing ourselves and networking is really important. The more people you know the wealthier you are. That will not be in your bank account but who you know. The founder of linked in is perhaps the great visionary and a brilliant man a graduate of stanford and a philosopher attacks at oxford. He was a believe the fulbright or Rhodes Scholar in the interest of this better than anyone. He essentially vote invented social networks. Cspan here you are back at that ted speech back in 2012. We are being sold something also which is a scam, something which is undermining who we are as a species. One of the previous speakers talked about the importance of community, what i call the cult of the social. This idea that community is everything. You come to these events because i want to shoot all of you. All you have to hear about his community, community, community. Community is supposed to be so wonderful. Community brings us together. These books, too many of them all about how important it is for us to work together. All premised on this absurd idea that technology will finally enable community. For those of you who read marks posner german question its taken lock stock and barrel from marks the idea that Technology Allows us to realize our species , that we have this network 2 billion people in all this data, dna. We are all becoming information we can share that information and become community. But of course its nonsense and worse than nonsense its dangerous nonsense. Cspan why is it dangerous . Guest its dangerous because its not true. Its dangerous for two reasons. Firstly as he realized in his great work its the interior thats so important and the role of government, is to protect that interior. I am the book at the museum in amsterdam gazing at the great artists of the interior. Im a believer in that liberalism and im a believer in now and the idea of protecting the individual to think for themselves and the social tends to lead itself to conformity. Thats the first thing. The second thing is that the social, i dont think being social is a bad th