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To City Lights Book publishers. We are thrilled to have Samuel Woolley with us celebrating a very important book called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs books. Samuel woolley is a writer and researcher specializing in the study of ai, emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media, assistant professor of the school of journalism and Program Director for Computational Propaganda Research at the center for media engagement at the university of texas at austin. Samuel woolley founded and directed the Digita...

Tonight we are thrilled to welcome Rebecca Solnit of the publication date of her new book recollections of my nonexistence. Please note there will not be a signing tonight after the event but Rebecca Solnit did arrive early to sign each and every one of your books. [applause]. And now a bit our guests, Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, a paradise built in hell, rivers, shadows and wanderlust. A history of walking, shes also the author of. [inaudible] a product of the California Public Education System from kindergart...

Note there will not be a signing after the event, she arrived early to sign each and every one of your books. [applause] a little bit about her shes the author of 20 books including a field guide to getting lost, the faraway nearby, of paradise built in hell, rivers, shadows, and wanderlust. A history of walking shes also the author of extreme things to me on feminism, activism, the current climate crisis. A product of the California Public Education System from kindergarten to graduate school. She is a regular contributor to the guardian. Leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times mag...

In the mic . No. Without the mic . Also no. Alexis is the deputy cto of new york city and runs a policy experiment lab, trying to get vendors to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens of new york. An adjunct professor of tech media and communications at Columbia University and spent a couple of decade studying the issues as a doctoral student and then as a member of the staff at the u. N. Mission of the state department, and also just speaking deeply about them which is so clear from the book, which i really admire. So quick round of applause for...

The economy is fast changing, who knows what it throws at us. Women are getting those skills and credentials at a faster rate than men are being more nimble filtering into the society. In the book i talk about how that changes marriage and our notions of fatherhood and what men can and cant do in families, young people have sex, make decisions influencing our culture. Host give me some of the numbers. We heard for years theres a crisis with girls, they learn differently, not as strong in math and science and emphasis to improve that. Its a shock to learn that women far out perform boys in acad...