The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought

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The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses his book, The Black Swan in relation to predicting the future, learning from the consequences of the unknown, and the power of randomness.



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The Long Tail - Chris Anderson

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You know something is up when an audience member is taking cell phone photos of the presenter’s slides for instant transmittal to a business partner. Chris Anderson does have killer slides, full of exuberant detail, defining the exact shape of the still emerging opportunity space for finding and selling formerly infindable and unsellable items of every [...]



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Joe Eszterhas - On Screenwriting

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Screenwriter and author Joe Eszterhas discusses the writing process, and offers some advice for aspiring screenwriters. Joe Eszterhas, best-selling author and legendary bad-boy screenwriter discusses his new book “The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!.” Mike Ovitz told him his Wilshire Blvd. “foot soldiers” would hunt him down. He’s antagonized almost everyone at the top [...]



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The Future of Music: Copy Rights and Wrongs

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The Commonwealth Club of California San Francisco, CA Sep 17th, 2007 The Future of Music Part II: Copy Rights and Wrongs with discussants Chris Castle, Tim Westergren and Eion Harrington. Richard French moderates. What do artist rights and creative license mean in the rapidly evolving world of entertainment? What’s really wrong with the music industry, and how can new [...]



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Ken Burns on FORA.tv

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Ken Burns in Conversation with Robert Stone New York Public Library New York, NY Sep 27th, 2007 Ken Burns’ most recent documentary film project, The War, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of more than 40 men and women from four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, [...]



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