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Support Edward Snowden and chelsea madden, private manning and to remember that lineage that atm with the Citizens Commission to investigate the f. Era. Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] for people in the back. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible] so is conviction that the fbi office was worth breaking into mustve been based on more than just antipathy for the fbi. Id like to know what does he know about the fbi the email of, which convinced him to take this rather drastic action. I can answer that question. We talked about it quite a bit. He had no file on the fbi, but what he had w...

I have one question so far which i think touches a little bit on that. What do the stagnation and end of innovation days not recognize when they face that . The great stagnation, his argument has used this plateau. You are painting quite a different picture. Hes a super smart guy and we discussed it with him. He really inspired us to work on that first book, race against the machine. When we read his book because he was arguing we had run out of innovation and it was just no more good things, a few good things left to invent. Hanging around a place like mit media lab, we thought that cant poss...

Edmund phelps. He was the 2006 Nobel Laureate in economics and is the author of many books including a new one called mass flourishing how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change. This book examines modern economics and what makes nations prosper. And why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Net phelps teaches economics and is the director of the center on capitalism and society at columbia university. He has lost at the sources of Economic Growth in the causes of unemployment. On announcing his nobel prize, the committee specifically said his task breaking ...

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 mach...

Anecdotage is influential and important military mission culminating to be a supreme allied commander in europe in the 1990s. And retirement he has been an investment banker and big shot businessman and he does have one book here todays so join me to welcome wesley clark. [applause] it is a terrific book i do not have a copy with me thank you. Here we go. It is dont wait for the next war a strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership to prepare for this set of challenges were facing. And then for died giving up 50 minute talk about his book to maximize his time for conversation. But inev...