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Vigilance of the American Public. Host when you say managed and contained what do you mean . Guest if we had this conversation after 9 11 and the anthrax attacks and i predicted 45 americans would be killed by jihadi terrorist that would have seemed like an optimistic projection. But that is what happened and each of the 45 deaths is a tragedy but they are not on the scale of 9 11 1 or even the pars attack. You will not hear politicians saying we managed and contained the threat. You will not hear them say by the law of averages someone is going to get one through because both of those stateme...

His talk today will be on what he calls the law of amplification. So its a very interesting talk because, you know, here at mit our motto is let us build technology and, obviously, that will solve all of the worlds problems. [laughter] and its kind of a heresy in some way to have this talk, and the talk is aptly named geek heresy rescuing social change from the cult of technology, something thats very interesting because it provokes, you know, important conversations. Technology is important, but its also important to think about what is the impact of the technology and how do we design the te...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] everybody, welcome to this amazing talk. My im a ph. D student in the humanities group, doing research and a fellow of the center for ethics. So today we have kentaro, who is a professor at the university of Michigan School of information. He also founded Microsoft Research india, where he created a group that did technology for emerging markets. His talk today will be on the law of am mixification. A very amplification, a very interesting talk. And its kind of a heresy in some ways to have this talk, and the talk is aptly named geek heresy r...

A cashless society will have a tremendous effect on this country, including reducing crime, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has said.