Charlie Rose

vongleichent  11/11/2012 12:15 PM Report

It always blows my mind this kind of thinking.

Fran6359  10/28/2012 04:34 PM Report

Anyone else pick up on his 8 billion population stat. That was a prediction of what our population looks like in the future right?

Probably the best technologist interview on CR since Sal Khan.

quotes88  10/27/2012 08:38 AM Report

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Gelles  10/20/2012 09:24 AM Report

As indicated below, you might say of on-going wars: "The Rich are at war with the poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils" and the C Rose audience at war with itself.

Michael Saylor, CEO of Microstrategy (the intelligence end of the information revolution) is at war with the status quo.

Why not be? The SQ is not an easy place to rest. It threatens to come apart at the seams almost every day. Economic and military competition threaten our prospects for peace and plenty. There is no tenure for the rich and healthy. Whatever your state of comfort, tomorrow promises disaster.

But who would have it differently? Who is coward enough to want tranquility for more than an hour?

When Microstrategy stock was selling below a dollar a share I bought as much as I dared. I held it year while it revalued it shares to leave you one-tenth of the number you owned (as best as I can remember). Too bad I took an early profit. Too bad I never wrote a book to become a billionaire.

On the other hand, fame and fortune are most attractive to those who want but don't have them. Rose and Rowling earned theirs the old fashioned way -- worked long hours against long odds to garner rewards to enjoy and reward the large audiences they serve. What need we say but thanks. It's a world we none of us made by design. It's a world we inhabit and use for a time.

Gelles  10/20/2012 08:36 AM Report

Friday night's (October 19,2012) C. Rose TV on PBS was an hour interview with J. K. Rowling, authoress of the Harry Potter books. The interview is not yet ready gor comment. So I have to react to it here. The interview is about the lady and her career. It also touches on her latest book -- not Potter, but one for adults like us, called "The Casual Vacancy". That new book is described in Amazon as follows:

..... "When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults."

----- end Amazon description of new book -----

Gelles  10/19/2012 08:03 PM Report

Mobile systems that are always on and extremely user-friendly to allow today's TV, phone, and futuristic internet services will be here in time. They will be received on folding device that fits in your breast pocket. I'll want one and they will be cheap. Meanwhile they are less than user-friendly.

When up to snuff they will store our memoirs in great detail. And they will store the histories of thousands of great lives who lived before us. By comparing the two with AI technique, we will converse with re-created greats to satisfy our curiosity about current events. Instead of the lowest common denominator limiting what we discover, we will get a deserved break in proportion to our own experience and belief. What's wrong with that?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/19/2012 02:33 AM Report

Charlie--just in the last two years, 90% of ALL the data created since humanity began. Most of it, of course, is text messages between teenagers.

"Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.

This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a few.

This data is big data."

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/

Big data spans four dimensions: Volume, Velocity, Variety, and Veracity and this would be a Charlie Rose show.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/19/2012 02:22 AM Report

Boy, oh boy Charlie:

Audited financial statements showing Microstrategy had earned $12.6 million on revenue of $205 million in 1999.

The company's financial statements did not conform with accounting rules, even though they had been approved by auditors at the firm's office in McLean, Va.

Eventually, the company was forced to restate its accounts to show that it had revenue of $151 million in 1999 and a net loss of $33.7 million. Profits it had reported in 1998 and 1997 also turned to losses.

Wonderful! So pity the poor guys that lost $6B in one day because there accounting can't determine a profit from a loss. Poor MIT graduates.

By the way, is this like the Groupon story?

If so, those Google Venture boys are probably jumping up and down that they saved $6B.

REMant  10/18/2012 12:10 PM Report

Not everyone is going to eliminate their privacy for alleged security. And I've never seen the utility in registering Internet addresses either.