PERSUADING THE PERSUADABLES
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Why did a group of Democrats just put 700 thousand dollars worth of ads on in Iowa to attack Bernie Sanders? And how will internet ad buys targeting the 'persuadables' sway our upcoming election? Are we in a fundamentally different media universe now? Thom is joined by Ramesh Srinivasan- the author of "Beyond the Valley: How Innovators Around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow" to kick off a deep convo on the politics of media today.
Plus Thom explains the mission statement of his radio show in a reading from his book "Rebooting the American Dream- 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country".
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:04.0 | Our book today in the Tom Hartman Book Club is Beyond the Valley by Ramesh Shrino Vassen. |
| 0:10.0 | This is from Chapter 1, The Power of Data. |
| 0:14.0 | In November 2017, my Apple Macbook Pro was stolen. |
| 0:18.1 | It happened on the island of Ibiza, where I was visiting my friend a documentary filmmaker. |
| 0:23.2 | We were thinking of making a series of short films |
| 0:25.2 | to illustrate innovative uses of new technology around the world. |
| 0:29.5 | We sat together writing down examples of technological innovations, |
| 0:32.8 | subversion and creativity we'd already witnessed. |
| 0:35.8 | We discuss themes I explore in this book, |
| 0:37.9 | such as Surveillance, the Gig economy, |
| 0:39.9 | and the future of work, artificial intelligence, and |
| 0:42.6 | cryptocurrences. |
| 0:44.4 | After uploading our ideas to Google's cloud-based |
| 0:47.2 | storage platform, Google Drive, |
| 0:49.2 | we took a short break, locking our laptops in the trunk of our rented car. |
| 0:53.3 | When we returned, both laptops were gone. |
| 0:56.0 | Although upset, I was also relieved. |
| 0:58.0 | I'd be able to recover most of my data |
| 0:59.6 | because almost all of it was in the cloud. |
| 1:01.8 | That was what I signed on onto when I stored my files with |
| 1:04.5 | Google as well as with Apple, Microsoft, and Dropbox. But in the bargain I'd allowed them to |
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