scott is mike's podcast partner for the silicon valley insider, a weekly overview of silicon valley in the tech industry. he holds a degree in political science from ucla. welcome mike and scott, we are looking forward to your conversation. take away. >> thank you so much. welcome to everyone. michael, welcome to you. it's great to talk to you and this time i get to ask you a question. please allow us to be informal, we are fully i capable of anythg else. [laughter] >> this is an honor to be here for many reasons. i am a big fan of yours and as a tech reporter, i've been standing on your shoulders for years but also computer history museum, some of the earliest stories i did as a silicon valley reporter were at hm and you have allowed me to host programming there to do many interviews and geek out both individually and children to be the exhibits and i always appreciated that. it's an honor to be associated with that. >> if i can add, i am deeply honored, i've done many things over the years, i go back so far, i remember when gordon and bell were making the decision to move to silicon

scott is also mike's podcast partner for the silicon valley insider weekly overview of silicon valley tech industry scott holds a degree in political science and ucla. welcome mike and scott but we're so looking forward to your conversation, take it away. >> thank you so much. welcome everyone, and michael welcome to you. it's great to be here. >> it's great to talk to you, this time i get to ask you the questions. >> and folks, please let us be a little informal. scott and i are not really capable of anything else. [laughter] this is an honor to be here for many reasons. mike, you know i'm a big fan of yours. as a tech reporter i've been standing on your shoulders for years. in some of the earliest stories i did as a silicon valley reporter were at sea hm and you have allowed me to do many there and geek out. individually to see the exhibits. always appreciate it it's an honor to be associated with that. >> if i can add, i am deeply honored. i've done many things at the museum over the years. i go back safari member would gordon glenn bell made the decision to move to silicon valley

silicon batteries so no silicon is come back to silicon valley but is there v product going to work? i don't know but it's possible that batteries can now get on the freight train in not the semi conductors. i think batteries are going to be crucial and whoever has the great breakthrough, you know i had lunch a while back with frederico and i said what's the greatest invention in valley history? is it the tryout -- triode or the transistor? is it the integrated circuit? visit you and your team with the microprocessor and he said no, i think the one true moment of genius in that whole history to play in our process. he said everything else that wee all do you could see it coming. you are extrapolating from where we are now to what we could do in the future but he says the idea of taking the transistor and laying it flat and the printing process and being able to scale it down 10 nanometers with the planar process that was not an active engineering. he said that was an act of artistic creation and he said everything else pales next to that moment when they came up with that so i though

valley habló de los órganos de comunidad se ubica en grandes empresas además sobre están expuestos a problemas de inundación precisamente en la historia se han visto amenazados por la madre naturaleza >> hablan inglés >> al visto del histórica de los años 1000 homicidio 56,978 aminoácidos 83 así que se construyera una se podrá caminar y disfrutar de los paisajes de la hermosa porción al sur de la bahía reino desproteger en otra comunidad los silicon valley lugares como el estadio escuela hospitales y plantas de tratamiento de agua reciclaje de una inundación >> sean asignados o multimillonarios a un proyecto que controla inundaciones que se espera simplemente los próximos años >> hablan inglés >> trabajando lo mismo en el extremo recibiendo fondos a nivel federal y conservación de cosas y otros para continuar levantando derribando uno 5/1/15

amazon itself is not in us silicon valley necessarily. but that whole the ecosystem of e commerce is there, it is actually legal to steal up to a $1000.00. and that way pointing out there is that these goods end up being sold by 3rd party sellers on amazon. and so amazon is benefiting from the moral ethical and legal collapse in california made possible by fear money. because, of course, when you print loss of fear money and it goes to the hands of a, say, a jeff bezos who runs amazon, he's got political influence. so i just again, in america, um, i think i really do believe if you put a chart and you made a chart of the, the cost of buying a politician around the world. i think america's the cheapest. i think you can buy a nancy pelosi or somebody like that for a few 100 bucks. whereas in other countries, it actually costs a lot more in europe and these other countries. i wish american, ah, politicians demanded a little bit more money for their influence. nevertheless, here we have this ongoing story of plunder and looting happening acro

we think that what we have within silicon valley is a prime example of what represents the world at large of that disconnect. so we provide free tech classes and try to provide our students with the mindsets, the skills, and what they need to actually contribute to tech and innovation. >> are your classes all free, and who gets to take them? >> absolutely. we say innovation for everyone, so our classes are absolutely free, we try to make as few barriers as possible to enter into this economy, so you have people who think it's not for them, we need to make sure that folks know it is for them, there are innovators who looked just like morgan and they spend of diversity that we need. and we want to highlight those, and skills classes, we need people, there is a shortage of workforce, so we need folks with the right skills, so why put up a barrier, so we try to get people the mindset skills absolutely free. >> and you don't have to live in east palo alto. morgan, were nine, you developed a game called candy unicorn, have you continue to take classes at street code? >> yep. >> what kind of cla

and you see article after article of these families out in silicon valley, having to like fortify their homes and assorted it because it is the neo feudal sister ray that the, the fortifications of the neo feudal era are here. right, right. the bigger government is the problem, big government, and this is what the left, the progress of draws advocating for bigger government, more money printing. and this is exactly what happens. you have a sense of entitlement. so the people that are stealing all this money, they feel they are entitled to it because the politicians are stealing a lot of money. the big government is doing a lot of money. you know, another trick that amazon uses, of course, to choose up their bottom line is that they do white label brands or private label brands, or they compete, quote, unquote, with other companies, by introducing amazon labeled merchandise like amazon batteries, et cetera. so in this case, the looters that are plundering the stores, they've got the amazon bat, and the amazon hoodie. you say it's amazon branded looting and they only hit you on the head w

in the silicon valley, this was their customers, and contributors. saying they're going to fame. >> that's how they approach it. then they're going to make themselves superfluous, and if you anticipate that, if you precede in business on the assumption that your job is to make your own customers superfluous, you're going to run out of things to do if that's your business model, aren't you? >> i don't -- i mean, i'm even in control enough not to believe, that they continue to advance at a tremendous pace, but i don't think it's advancing any more rapidly than it did at the time of the industrial revolution. >> mm-hmm. >> and i think that the economist william moorhouse has looked at this, and looked at the invention creation of life, is amount of lumens you need to light a room at night, and it shows that the advance in lighting has been 100,000 times more rapid than it was measured in the economic model. essentially economists were writing about mills, and -- >> william blake. >> yeah. they were writing, and emmitt james, writing, and the incredible

also michael malone chronicles the beginnings of silicon valley with his book the big score. then "the memory thief" about the effects of opioid use on the memory. what can teach doctors about alzheimer's disease followed by biologists carole hooven explaining how testosterone dries behavior. >> some people say that artificial intelligence is going to make a the human race obsolete. people don't want to think that a artificial intelligence, and intimidating subject that the thing about ai is even if you don't want to think about it, it is thinkingut about you, or is ? that will be the question we will be discussing today on this episode of independent conversations. greetings everybody who has joined us. i'm graham walker coming from the independent institute in oakland, california. we try to bring notable experts on aic variety of topics to discuss topics of the day and we think giving your perspective that you're not likely to hear elsewhere, and today we'll be talking with george gilder. let me welcome george gilder to independent conversations. hi, george. [inaudible] >>

a flat university society in silicon valley, binary symbols which can play games better than us. there are black and gray, white and gray stones and the stones are symbols and they don't show beyond the board. if you have a computer, they can move billions of times faster than a human can. obviously they can play better than a human. >> i think you're saying a man is going to be superseded by a threshing machine. a man with a single side of that doesn't mean the machine is more sophisticated than the man. >> that's right. >> you say early on in the book and you repeated in a few places that you have two basic claims notion of sort of supremacy of artificial intelligence and both don and self defeating. i find it reassuring to learn from you and your book and other sources that the human mind is more complex and maybe the entire world internet system,ur that is reassuring. i'm glad to know maybe there's evidence but my mind is more than just a meat machine with electronics pulsing threat. so maybe it is done but the trouble is, could this view of artificial intelligence rise to a

people like frances haugen are a rare thing in silicon valley. the decision she made to take on facebook wasn't taken lightly. the company intentionally hides vital information from the public, from the us government and from governments around the world. silicon valley is a notoriously secretive and notoriously litigious place when it comes to employees who want to put their head above the parapet to raise concerns. how did big tech get so big? and one of the reasons it got so big, to be honest, is by exploiting thousands of people who work there. and the way that they have managed to keep that exploitation going is by silencing people who work there, including through incredibly wide and broad non—disclosure agreements. i've honestly almost never seen anything like it. i'm a kind of human rights lawyer who used to bring cases against the cia, and the culture of secrecy and fear at big tech is basically as bad as i used to see in the cia. it means whistle—blowers who want to come forward, like haugen, need to be extremely brave and have extr

i think companies in silicon valley that revive their business plan is also leaving their customers and contributors are going to fail. >> yeah, if that's how they approach it, then they're going to make themselves superfluous. in fact, they seem to anticipate that. if you proceed in business on the assumption that your job is to make your own customers superfluous, , you're going to n out of things to do it that your business model, aren't you? >> i think it's quite absurd. i'm even contrary enough to not believe that -- i think technology is continuing to advance at a tremendous pace, but it don't think it's advancing any more rapidly than it did at the time of the industrial revolution. i think that nobel laureate economist william nor house -- nor house did a study of the advance of writing. this is the invention, creation of light, the amount of lumens you need to light a room at night. and he shows that the advance in lighting has been a hundred thousand times more rapid than is measured in the economic models. essentially, economists while they are writing about them satanic mill

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companies in silicon valley that regard their business plan as obsolete and their customers and contributors are going to fail. >> if that's how they approach it, then they're going to make themselves superfluous. you will run out of things to do. >> i think it's absurd. i think that the nobel laureate economist william nordhouse did a study of the advance of -- the invention and creation of white, the amount of lumen to light a room at night. he shows that the advance in lighting has been 100,000 times more rapid than is measured in the economic model. the incredible expansion of light from the time that was -- it was fire in a cave to the millions of candles at versailles to whale oil to kerosene to finally electricity and then light emitting -- >> beyond electricity. >> measured by the amount of time a worker had to spend to buy the light to illuminate a room. economic progress was 100,000 times more rapid than is usually estimated in that field. during the industrial revolution, we missed light. this continues to be, a golden age of capitalism with the technological progress as fast as e

they want to make a difference, and right now, silicon valley is where you get that chance. the better they do it, the better they feel, and more important for the home gamer, the more money they make for you. so the bottomline, sometimes you accept that having a purpose can also mean having a stock price that is higher provided the company in question is on a mission to make lots of money. and it's based where we are all week, the heart of silicon valley in california let's go to chuck in florida chuck. >> caller: hey, jim. >> chuck >> caller: i just wanted to ask you a question, first of all, we're the same age, and my favorite show growing up was "wall street week. >> friday night, 8:30. loved him. >> caller: and my favorite guest was john templeton and that story how he bought every stock on the new york stock exchange that was $1 or less at the end of the depression. it was a great story >> great memories of that show let's make some money together what's going on? >> caller: i wanted to ask you about this amd merger. i listened to the amd conference call and lisa sue s

moving south toward silicon valley. light and dry right now. let's check in with dom. >>> can dom here us? >> can't hear us, or he's just completely ignoring us. >> we will iron things out and check in with dom in just a bit. >>> right now we will go to brian sullivan. >> investors gearing up for more hearings. the federal reserve is expected to announce it will begin to unwind the stimulus program put in place during the pandemic and lockdowns. and they will be talking about inflation running at a 30-year high. in focus today, you have a big number on u.s. manufacturing as well as construction spending. union workers at john deere are set to vote tomorrow on a new contract that will offer bigger raises and bonuses. that company trying to end its first strike in 35 years. it announced a new tentative deal this weekend on a six-year deal. more than 10,000 workers at 14 plants in america and canada are on strike. at apple the item with the longest wait time is low tech. the most back ordered product is apple's $19 polishing cloth. if you order th

. >> i thought he was just silicon valley? no, while he was a good technology chief i google undeveloped at that -- response to your emails, you know gmail, has responses that allow you to anticipate how you are going to respond to a particular issue. i notice those responses are more curious since was if. it cases it establishment? that's raises contribution. ray as a whole -- contributions to technology where the decades. but i think all these people have forgotten the fundamental principles of the computer science that they expound. that's what's striking about the book, because you don't seem to be of much of a dune say or something in, fact see five got this right to -- you seem to think the potential of a i maybe oversold, but that even in the overselling there could be some collateral damage and you're trying to avoid that. >> have i got that rain? >> that's right. the idea that somehow ai competes with human minds is a fundamental illusion. >> a lot of these technology creators, he came to their work having already abs

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. >>> getting to coachella from silicon valley just got a little easier. the big announcement coming up next. >>> it's been in the works for years but today a new pedestrian bridge open in the palo alto. if you drive 101 you might have seen it. the mississippi than 100 feet over. you probably noticed the construction if you drive 101 that's been going on for a while. it didn't take long, as you can see, for people to get up there. look at the new bridge that will allow for year round access to the mainland. >> a lot of people already using it. looks good. >>> traling between silicon valley and coachella valley got more convenient. today the airports announced they'll start running daily flights between the two cities. the san jose airport director says it has been a top requested route for several years. so every morning flights will leave san jose to palm springs and head back to san jose. alaska airlines will provide the daily service. >> san jose rocks. >>> this rocks as well. still ahead, nourishing neighbors. how much has already been raised, next. (s

. >>> this father of two in silicone valley executive was murdered outside of his own home. what his parents, best friend and neighbors reveal to us tonight. >> if you have been enjoying the sunny and warm weather, our meteorologist has a weekend forecast that you are going to love. >>> eye popping new study about what the pandemic is doing to our oceans and bay area beaches may not look this clean for much longer. >>> look who is back in the bay area for the first time since the pandemic, we were there for santa's first day on the job. >> right now the police are looking for a 3-year-old boy abducted by a double shooting suspect, the police believe they may possibly be headed to san jose. >>> within the last 90 minutes an amber alert was issued. the boy was abducted from the sacramento area late this afternoon. 3-year-old leo norvel is believed to be with 30-year-old josua yogo. investigators say just before 5:00 tonight jogo shot two people and fled the area in one of the victim's cars, leo was in that car. the police believe the suspect and the victims do know each other.

>> i can say definitively that there have been a handful of startups, one out of silicon valley, who spent an enormous amount of money, very nearly a nine-digit number, trying to automate this system. and i think what we can say fundamentally is we're just not there yet. it's one thing to ask an automation to drive down an interstate without causing an accident in straight line from jacksonville, florida to san diego. it's another thing to ask that automation to exit an interstate and enter into urban and metropolitan traffic, navigate their way through that traffic to a yard where it has to back into a dock. and all along the way you're expecting somehow for that automation to pull off and be recharged or refuelled, certainly fiat had going to make its way across the country without stopping. so, we're just a long, long way away from that happening. >> finally, tra williams, if someone is interested in becoming a truck driver, how much is that going to set me back? >> in florida tuitions range between $6,000 and $8,000 for a 160 program and your cdl class license. they'll go to any

here is a somewhat sympathetic figure who gave it a shot like so many ceos in silicon valley and came up short. >> her former boyfriend, why was he brought up? he was obviously a big part of this. >> he was the coo, and it came up that he made certain budgetary decisions, and it came up that he came to hire and fire certain employees. she said many times during the trial, hey, the buck stops with me. i was the ceo. but we don't know if she's going to put some blame or whatever on sonny bulwani. his name was invoked by her today. >> so in theory, a decision could be made sometime next week. what's the game plan? where are they going with this, the defense? >> the defense is giving her a chance to say, i screwed up. >> and that's not against the law. >> not at all. i was in charge of the logos that we didn't really have permission to use going on the theranos paper that investors saw, logos for big pharma companies like pfizer. i was in charge of creating an environment that some people thought was overbearing and they quit. both times she said, i wish i could do it over again. look, ra

vta says it will get funding to help build the silicon valley b.a.r.t extension. caltrain will get money to help trekify its system, swapping diesel trains for electric ones. that's right along the peninsula. sam trans and ac transit will get money to invest in zero emissions buses. you see the money there, and it's coming here to those various agencies. these are just some of the agencies. our local cities will also cash in. mayor liccardo, san jose says his city, the most populous will get funds to upgrade the power grid, build more ev charging infrastructure, and buy electric buses for school districts. >>> another story we're watching on this monday night, teachers in oakland raising red flags about crammed cafeterias, rooms with poor ventilation and damaged outdoor canopies. they say their campuses could soon turn into covid hot spots. several local teach verse posted a video to youtube detailing the problems at various campuses within the ousc. teachers say among other issues there is not enough air filtration in crowded classrooms and cafeterias. and after

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into silicon valley and caltrain will receive money for its electrification project. >> happening today, oakland leaders weighed two possible development deals for the site of the coliseum and arena. both deals involve memorandums of understanding, locking in an exclusive negotiating agreement to develop the site. council members each have potential deals in play with developers. regardless of which deal is approved, developers will have to work with the oakland a's to purchase alameda county's share of the land back in 2019. >>> also today, a critical vote on plans to develop a large chunk of open space in the south bay. they'll weigh plans to add about 125 acres of warehouse space in coyote valley area south of san jose. >> it's a very slippery slope. as soon as you allow one particular development to move forward, there's no principal basis for drawing a line anywhere else. and you'll see the entire valley get developed. >> supporters say that they would like to see more jobs come to that area. and opponents are saying they need to preserve the land. as you heard from the mayor there

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it was purchased by a billionaire, a silicon valley venture capitalist, mark atkrae sun. so the estate sits on seven acres and has its own movie theater and two guest homes. wow. >>> an act of kindness on halloween translating to more treats for children going door to door. a mountain view woman left a bowl of candy outside her door, and the candy was gone by the time a group of girls arrived. first, they took a few pieces, but then look what they do, they add candy to the bowl for the next set of trick-or-treaters. isn't that nice? that is kindness. >> i thought that the story would go another way, but, no, that's beautiful. >> i put a bowl out and we still had tons in there. >> really? >> yeah. >> look at this. halloween may be over but we still want to share awesome customers. look, we see princesses, and so many beautiful costumes. one to the left, i am not sure what is going on there? is that bedrock, "the flintstones"? i can't make it out. too small for me on my screen. we will share more as we go through the morning. did any of you dress up? >> i showed cute, beaut

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believed to more. >> tracking and distribution kicked into high gear at second harvest of silicon valley in sand and say we've been doing this for 20 bucks. secure south be families rely on the food bank. year round. but there is no busier time than the holiday season volunteer in team lead in the been more than 400 hours of this year. ever since covid the numbers have just gone through the the food bank is feeding about 450,000 people each month. that's an 80% increase. >> from before the pandemic. this year. we're providing 22% more for than he did last year. second harvest ceo leslie bacho says the organizations budget has doubled during the pandemic to keep up with them and it has added 15 more trucks opened a new warehouse and increased its staff 40%. at the same time, it has ended its traditional food collection. drives with barrels to be more efficient. >> bacho says second harvest has enough food but needs volunteers and monetary donations. and actually people donate. >> money reconstruct it much farther for every dollar donated concerts update for 2 meals. >> say they believe in

announcer: from the heart of where innovation, money and power collide, in silicon valley and beyond, this is bloomberg technology with emily chang. emily: i'm emily chang in san francisco and this is "bloomberg technology." in the next hour, president biden promises change for the better with his new infrastructure law coming at a precarious political moment as polls show overwhelming pessimism across the u.s. about the economy. we will break down the details. plus, another twitter filled weekend for elon musk the world's richest person taking on senator sanders. wide twitter users believe he could be hinting at selling more --tesla shares. and he's the youngest ceo of a public company on track to transform the trucking kindest re-dutch industry. -- the trucking industry. i will be speaking to the ceo of embarq. let's get a look at the markets. kriti gupta has the full picture. >> names like tesla and nvidia down on the day but then you have facebook and alphabet higher on the day. the s&p 500 index essentially unchanged on the day. another thing it shows is a risk off day with the c

valley in california, he and i worked on cybersecurity together and we will continue to work on those issues. i am willing to find a way if others are willing to join me. host: nancy mace, do you hear from constituents more about your vote to subpoena steve bannon or your efforts to end testing on puppies? guest: i would say the puppy letter regarding beagle experiments by dr. fauci and nih has garnered much more attention than my vote on contempt charges . as i promised folks when i ran for office when i got sworn in, i swore an oath to the constitution. the vote on subpoena powers, i would not want to water down those powers for congress because when republicans are in the majority, we will want to have hearings, we will want >> the u.s. house about to gavel in to begin legislative work. members are expected to consider a number of bills dealing with small business development as well as native american lands and casino gaming bills. also, negotiations ongoing on president biden's social spending package. we could see lawmakers take up that bill and the senate-passed $1.2 trillion i