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♪ ♪ >> host: james, thank you so much for joining us. >> guest: well, thank you for having me. >> host: i really enjoyed your book, great fun to read, and quite informative. >> guest: thanks. >> host: what i was fascinated about by the year 1948. i mean, clearly that was a banner year so to speak in terms of setting the stage for the world we live in today. that was the year that the transistor was ingented, the information theory, and that the book was published "cybermedics qtsz, and what was about that year that all that came together? >> guest: that year is the starting point...

public library for 50 minutes. >> it is terrific to be back in chicago. it always is, especially on an actual nice day. i was here last week was 45 degrees. i have to tell you this makes me tremendously must all shook for the days when moodie came to my talks to read and i always like to tell this story about my very first book event, which took place when i was living in baltimore. it was just after it published a book called the naked consumer. [laughter] exactly. it's a book that nobody got. nobody read. well, one read i...