9/23/2018: The Dutch Solution, The Real Power of Google, Into the Wild
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Following the devastation of Hurricanes Florence. Maria, and Harvey -- is it possible to protect ourselves from the relentless wrath of Mother Nature? Bill Whitaker finds out. Steve Kroft reports on the power of Google. Plus -- photographer Tom Mangelsen steps IN FRONT of the camera with Anderson Cooper on tonight's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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| 0:00.0 | Dozens of lives were lost to Hurricane Florence, and billions will be spent over the years to try to rebuild the East Coast. |
| 0:17.0 | It's a new normal in the era of super storms. But this Dutchman, from a city below sea level, says there's a solution for America. |
| 0:27.6 | Invest and innovate or pay later. |
| 0:30.6 | There's a national flood insurance program that is going bankrupt. |
| 0:34.6 | You pay disaster bills every year. |
| 0:38.3 | In the rebuilding, it's costing a lot of money. |
| 0:41.3 | It's wasted. |
| 0:43.3 | You think Google's a monopoly? |
| 0:45.3 | Oh, yes, of course, Google's a monopoly. |
| 0:48.3 | In fact, there are monopoly in several markets. |
| 0:50.3 | They are a monopoly in search. |
| 0:52.3 | They're a monopoly in search advertising They're a monopoly in search advertising. |
| 0:55.1 | They know who you are, where you are, what you just bought, what you might want to buy. |
| 1:02.8 | And so if I'm an advertiser and I say, I want 24-year-old women in Nashville, Tennessee who drive trucks and drink bourbon, I can do that |
| 1:15.7 | on Google. |
| 1:19.6 | Whether it's a male grizzly bear with battle scars, a cheetah chasing down its prey in Tanzania, |
| 1:26.0 | or butterflies sipping on the tears of a giant Cayman in Brazil, |
| 1:30.3 | each of Tom Mangelson's photographs tells a story. |
| 1:33.7 | Over the course of your lifetime, the amount of time you've spent waiting is incalculable, I'm sure. |
| 1:38.2 | Stupid. |
| 1:39.3 | Stupid. |
| 1:40.3 | Have you learned anything with all that waiting? |
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