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Good morning, everyone. Im scott mcgrew. We have been thinking a lot lately about the future of work. Certainly how robots will replace many of us at work. But a very smart fellow points out we may have been ignoring something called augmented work. Technology working with us, not against us to make us the worker more effective. This is video from microsoft, but there are any number of Companies Developing these sorts of ideas. Headsets and holograms, giving us very new views of work. Tim oreilly is famous for something called his oreilly radar. The ability to predict the next big thing. I can...

Detention. And from his mothers burial site. Thank you for joining us. Days before implement, the ups and human Rights Groups have strongly criticized refugeesing there but greece. That was a condition of a deal agreed between ankora and the eu last month. They are concerned about the possibility of refugees where their applications are being processed. And it said that it will not support detention centers. And it will stop moving refugees from greek beaches to facilities. Illegally returning thousands of refugees to their wartorn homeland. Highlighting the dangerouses that the refugees might...

Domestication right now than in the last 10,000 years of domestication until 1960 combined. Huge numbers of livestock that were keeping right now, and many of them live in these factory farms. We have a million or more individuals crowded together. So theyre basically, the animal equivalent of urban slums. This similarly allows pathogens to amplify and change to make them more virulent. One example of that Avian Influenza virus, normally live in waterfowl. But when the viruses drop into these factory farms where captive animals are come together, they start to change and replicate and mutate. ...

Pathogensof avian coming out of the middle east and the whole range of airborne pathogens, dengue, of mosquito borne pathogens, dengue, chikungunya, and zika of course. So the question i wanted to ask is how do Microbes Turn into pandemiccausing pathogens. You think of an microbe is a little thing with no locomotion, but it can cause these huge amounts of death and destruction. I wanted to look at that was a twopronged approach. First i looked at the history of one of our most successful pandemiccausing pathogens. That is cholera. It has caused seven global pandemics since it first emerged. Th...

I went to places like south china and new delhi to try to see how cholera could shed light on where these new pathogens might be going. What i learned is that cholera emerged in many ways in the same way a lot of the new pathogens are coming out today. It came out of the natural environment. Cholera is a bacteria that normally lives in marine habitats. It lives in conjunction with a zooplankton. Some places are full of cholera bacteria. It is half fresh, half salty. This is where the major rivers are draining into the bay of bengal. For the longest time, people did not live in areas like this....