syria's crisis tops the agenda as president putin hurries british prime minister cameron with the two leaders seeking to hammer out a common approach to getting these through talks. meanwhile washington reaffirms its reluctance to back syria's radicalise rebels any further after russia and the us agree to set up an international conference to bring about an end to the escalating conflict. and a blog a surge of democracy pakistan braces for saturday's historic general election ahmed away able to chill attacks and kidnappings by the taliban.

it's ten am here in moscow you're watching r.t. live with me with say. right to working out a common approach to mediating peace in syria is expected to dominate the discussion and present lead me to putin has british prime minister david cameron late on friday let's get the latest from our she's in sochi where the two leaders are set to meet where do russia and britain agree and defy that the road to peace in syria. while literally seventy two hours after was meeting john kerry secretary in moscow he's meeting the british prime minister david cameron in the city of sochi the host of the winter olympics in twenty fourteen that's where the russian president fact will be meeting most of his international colleagues over the coming months now this comes of course at the meeting in moscow where a principal decision on holding an international conference by the end of this month

to have both the members of the syrian opposition and the syrian government at the same negotiation table to attempt to find some kind of peaceful solution to the syrian conflict indeed this meeting in moscow was a breakthrough according to many experts because after months of harsh rhetoric the sides of managed to soften their position and agree on something in the long run the positions of the united states and russia have been different just the same story with the position of the u.k. and russia as well for months russia has been criticizing the west for taking one side in this conflict that is the side of the syrian rebels moreover russia has been criticizing the calls in the west to arm the syrian rebels provide them with military training and even possibly intervene into the conflict going on in syria now definitely we also know that russia also said about the syrian conflict that the west has been calling on russia to step down but at the same time never mentioned that the future of the future of syria must be decided by the syrian

people and mosco john kerry in many ways agreed that if the syrian people who will have to. the future of the country in the election at the same time he regenerated that that washington does not want to see assad in power it's interesting to see whether the same sentiments will be coming from david cameron after he meets president putin here in sochi especially given the fact that he already prompted a statement saying that there was an urgent need to find a quick and peaceful solution to the syrian conflict and that is exactly the reason why david cameron was flying to sochi to meet the russian president of course we'll be keeping our viewers up to date as we get all the details here in the russian city of sochi we certainly will alexey had a chef q. there live from a russian resort city of sochi. why the u.k. continues to insist the syrian regime may have a recently used chemical weapons that despite a top u.n. war crimes investigators say there is reason to believe such on the were in fact

used by the rebels and despite its official commitment to peace is through diplomacy britain is stepping up efforts it's a direct plea arming the syrian opposition as our first reports. well the prime minister said to m.p.'s in the house of commons recently that there's a growing body of limited but persuasive evidence that the syrian regime has used and continues to use chemical weapons now the u.n. war crimes investigators have said that as yet they've reached new conclusions as to whether either side has indeed used chemical weapons now the one day talk is taking place at a time when there is growing calls for some form of diplomatic progress to be made in place sites are going to be very much focused on not the prime minister's spokesman saying that the u.k. considers russia an important player when it comes to these discussions despite this russian the u.k. has certainly had a fractious past when it comes to the topic of syria both the prime minister david

cameron and foreign minister william hague have come out it was an extremely strong rhetoric in the past blasting russia for not having supported a cool for u.n. intervention in the country now the one they talk to say coming at a time when the u.k.'s been seen to try to step up efforts to bring an end to the e.u. arms embargo that would then allow the supply of weapons to the forces a face to the syrian regime a lot of concern from some here in the country and indeed internationally as to who exactly would cause to cheat the legitimate opposition given that the same much concern surrounding the other elements inside the country that are also confusing the extremely fractured picture that we're seeing playing out as the syrian conflict continues nonetheless the two sides are going to be pushing ahead with these talks whether or not they'll be able to put that fractious past behind them and come to something greenman remains to be seeing but the u.k.

prime minister's restated his commitment to trying to find some form of diplomatic progress moving forward. with russia and the u.s. having agreed to unite the efforts towards the mediating peace in syria bridges now hard pressed to consider its support for the rebels according to argy contrary to afshin rattansi it's especially outrageous of the british prime minister just dismiss call upon the un commission into who is using chemical weapons and when in the syrian conflict and at the same time the very rebels that are being sent to the so-called normally full force and equipment and materiel they're defecting to al nusra according to a report in british papers if britain has been exporting say night vision goggles to the syrian rebels and they use them in a sarin gas attack as for indicated by calling up all these un report does that

mean britain has been backing chemical weapons used in the middle east the fact that david cameron can do this shows him completely out of step after all it was him trying to lift the arms embargo for the rebels and never countenanced at any point the idea of a talks process of a kind of process that was aside from all the fighting and killing and slaughter and yet john kerry and me putin seem to have come to an agreement that yes of course they have to talk instead of all this killing the u.s. defense secretary says of the old order in the middle east is disappearing although it's still not clear what will replace it chuck hagel stress of the conflict in syria is becoming increasingly more sectarian and extremist with the country's collapse in our war we'll but all some u.s. lawmakers make fresh calls are for military intervention washington's that taking a backseat as can achieve she can explain. after the administration all but accused

the assad government of having used chemical weapons vice president joe biden now says quote we don't know for certain whether they were used by some of the opposition including the radicals who have aligned themselves with al qaeda this is probably the first time we hear someone in the administration talk about the possibility that the rebels may have used chemical weapons just a few days ago the white house press secretary was responding to the findings of the u.n. human rights investigation which said serry nerve gas may have been used by the rebels in syria and he basically brushed off the report saying it's quote highly likely that all such forces were behind it that has also been the narrative perpetuated in the media last week chuck hagel said the administration is considering arming the opposition also this week a bill was introduced in the senate that would authorize exactly that chuck hagel delivered a speech at the this conference in washington where several commanders of the free syrian army were also invited in that speech he did not mention arming the rebels he said this turkey jerry kerry and russian foreign minister lavrov announced they

will seek to convene an international conference with representatives of the syrian government and the opposition to determine how to implement a political transition in syria. using the forage of tools the united states will continue to work toward achieving our goal of ending the violence and helping the syrian people transition to a post to sort of story so we see there is a build up of hope for this conference which will presumably take place sometime at the end of may both washington and moscow said they're working on it but as far as the syrian opposition so far they have not clearly come out in favor of a political solution also it's not clear how the idea of a political solution something that washington says it wants to achieve can coexist with the idea of flooding the conflict with more weapons because when you give them orms the message is go fight the messages not stop fighting so it seems that arming

the rebels contradicts the core message of this geneva communique and both washington and moscow say they want this upcoming conference to be based on the geneva communiqué and that message is basically stop fighting and find a political solution across the border in lebanon or the head of hezbollah says they are ready to receive shipments of advanced weapons from the syrian leadership his statement it comes just days after israeli airstrikes targeted suspected arms depos near the syrian capital and while border tensions rise of the syrian opposition is being increasingly radicalized as a middle east correspondent policy of reports. the united nations says that its peacekeeping forces are continuing to monitor the separation of israeli and syrian forces along the israel syrian border but they have said that they've moved some of their units to new positions because of the precarious security situation twice in the last three months un forces have been kidnapped from the very same position

according to the martyrs brigade which is the group that detained for filipino un peacekeepers earlier this week they have been released we're being told that the united nations negotiated a safe passage with the syrian army forces in the area meanwhile we are receiving reports that the free syrian army which is the main opposition to the syrian president bashar assad is losing five who's as well as capabilities is the most says inside syria in some cases reportedly entire units of the f.s.a. have defected and they've moved to jump. which is and as long as organization with links to al qaida what we're being told is that the main reasons for the defections are better conditions ammunitions and of weapons but it certainly does present a dynamic for the united states britain and other governments who provided support to the syrian rebels and also considered arming them with weapons the entire situation is of course also of great concern to israel which is just next door this

is why many of these talks between russia and britain to see what they will yield policy r t tel aviv. coming up a big brother equipment design the high volume the boston tower the u.s. cities that may be logged cameras but it's called privacy advocates worried that the surveillance it will only trump the lives of their exit and should protect us. stabbed her then she gets goddamn environment jemison all get nothing bargello don't reach out to me i'm going to pull the baby aspirin to go back she wants as on employment his. a new high in portugal scores of people seeking refuge from economic turbulence by heading abroad we'll bring you the details in a few minutes. download give up location so. stream quality and enjoy your

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welcome back you're watching our two. main political parties have held their final rallies as fighters prepare for saturday's poll in the country's first transition from one democratically elected government to another that's a major stuff about the son's democracy but one which has been mobbed by violence across a volatile state as use accountable for reports. week after week these are the images the world has seen coming out of pakistan victims of a brutal wave of violence bomb blasts rippling across the country this is supposed to be a time of triumph for a country that's gearing up for its first ever democratic transition from one elected government to another but recent bomb and gun attacks by militants against religious minorities and secular politicians have called the country's stability

into question and sown fear among pakistani voters. everyone is scared of bombs and nobody feels safe so very few people go and vote because they're scared and go to you know those who will be the women. the pakistani taliban has vowed to target the country secular parties and they've made good on that threat the awami national party or the a and p. has borne the brunt of the attacks forced to campaign in the shadows. we can't campaign we can't arrange meetings all parties are doing rallies with millions of people but we can only do them with two hundred men and even when we do that terrorists are still targeting us but islam is parties have been targeted to this is the aftermath of an attack against a political party seen as being sympathetic to the taliban but the latter have condemned to democracy as a whole meaning any political party taking part in the elections could be considered fair game by the militant group more than six hundred thousand security

personnel including fifty thousand soldiers have been deployed during the election to guard against attacks but that's not exactly a comforting sight for a country that's been ruled by the military for almost half its life as an independent state the violence isn't just political in a country where the majority faith is islamic religious minorities have accused the mainstream political parties of not doing enough to protect them against attacks that could hurt the ruling party in the polls seem. that people's party iron. parties. made the positive. but security. is but the issues that may shape the outcome of the vote are more clear cut pakistan's economy has been battered by three years of successive floods which severely damaged agricultural heartlands power cuts are endemic with some rural areas getting only four hours of electricity per day clean water and food education and health care remain out of reach for many pakistanis crime and unemployment are

so huge issues in the cities all the main parties have vowed to tackle these bread and butter issues but few have outlined exactly how leaving voters skeptical of divination the started as elections are in politicians making promises to get votes . and then they forget everything about nearly five thousand candidates are running for pakistan's lower house of parliament and more than ten thousand hopefuls are angling for seats in pakistan's four provincial assemblies when it comes to the job of prime minister polls indicate that it's a showdown between former cricket legend imran khan and former prime minister nawaz sharif the latter seems to be heading to victory but khan has ridden a wave of popularity among younger voters with this promise to clamp down on corruption it's a tight race that's been overshadowed by violence a landmark election that has so far proven to be the bloodiest in the country's history the attacks are a stark reminder that politics and pakistan is a dangerous game propping up

a deadly democracy and of islamic law. rolling out of the big guns in the moscow springs sunshine metallurgy dot com watch the video day parade and buy a works which mark six a.d.'s since victory over the nazis we've also got movie wartime reflections from veterans themselves. and what is but to do an american soldier accidentally triggers his parachute and is pulled from the place the front is on the. the boston terror bombings the reinvigorated debate over the role of public surveillance in the u.s. new york and other major cities of in recent years expanded the number of cameras using homeland security department grants the multi-billion dollar security industry is growing at up to eight percent a year the question is who's keeping watch on what big brother is up to you are in a boat i investigates. the video surveillance market in the u.s.

has been permanently expanding more than i decade and here at the new york city a s i s exhibition and conference we are getting an up close look at some of the most latest and cutting edge surveillance technology that is being displayed by many security professionals that technology of course includes facial recognition iris scanning high definition close circuit cameras and other software that was once only seen in side by move now some would say it's appropriate the steps to be taking place in new york city because after all it was the mayor of the big apple that recently said he wanted to expand the amount of surveillance cameras that were on route the city of course those comments came in the aftermath of the boston terrorist attack and the mayor of new york is just one of many officials are out made it states that are only for surveillance we spoke with some professionals that

are here displaying their surveillance technology they say they have already seen up. in holes and increase and of course that can equate to a peak in sales i hate to say it but our phones have been ringing off the hook since the tragedy and you know it's it's an unfortunate thing but people are starting to think now how they should've been thinking all along you know to be able to provide a safe environment you have to think ahead is there going to be more surveillance cameras deployed and the answer to that is yes because lessons learned have shown us that if you have a venture recording. you can go back and find information that might not have been pertinent while you thought you were filming it but all the sudden if an event happens you need all the information that experts estimated that this industry would reach revenues of more than twenty billion dollars by twenty sixteen but now those numbers are being recalculated to be projected even higher because of

the time. as attacks that took place in boston as government spending on video surveillance is expected to surge tension between law enforcement officials and privacy advocates is also expected to greet critics say the american public has been forced on the scene privacy and civil liberties in the name of national security but the payoff hasn't been big after all america's web of spy cams failed to prevent the boston terrorist attacks and even when the f.b.i. finally revealed images of the suspects they needed the public's help to identify according to new york bring up or not or take a man who knows all about the absence of privacy is journalism esquire magazine editor at large a.j. jacobs he filmed two months of his life with a camera and says masses of aliens is coming big time here's what's ahead in this interview florentine late on friday i think that's going to be a problem i actually think you know big brother is a little bit of

a problem but i think a little brother is going to be more of a problem by that i mean other people will be videotaping you all the time so you do something embarrassing someone else is going to be videotaped and put on you too and we'll be humiliated you know you won't be able to slip on the banana peel you know anymore without it going on the you to on you tube this is what we're going to be doing where all of our lives are going to be on the record so we're all going to be like politicians whatever we say will be recorded. by the world news of who you are now there's been a leak at the international space station that says the i it says is leaking chilled ammonia gland which is used on this post systems in orbit the agency says there's no danger to the crew but to the league might require a shutdown of the affected cooling move within twenty four hours the crew are now

working under the routing the effective pa system so that everything runs nominee. the palestinians are accusing israel of trying to jeopardize attempts to restart peace talks that after the country approved construction of almost three hundred new homes in the occupied west bank the move could undermine washington which is now at pains are to force both sides to the negotiating table israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law with the palestinians insisting a building freeze before any resumption of talks. over a thousand people are now confirmed dead in the bangladesh garment factory collapse disaster there's still no official estimate of the number of those who are still missing from the tragedy which happened in the asking for the call to weeks ago the factories owners are said to have ignored safety regulations up to cracks in the building structure were found it's a world that is the industrial disaster since the one nine hundred eighty four bhopal toxic explosion. portugal's unemployment level has hit

a painful eighteen percent with close to half of young people now out of work and while the figure threatens to grow even for them scores of people are jumping ship for jobs at a decent living outside a home country bettered by debt to oliver has met some of the. leaving home in search of a better future it's not wanting to or outside portugal it's needing to work outside part victor is a journalist he's heading off to angola to work for a magazine because there just isn't work in portugal that allows him to support his family he says this is a problem that affects all portuguese society you have. people working in construction ok so with with low education and then you have the middle class upper class journalists financial direct. commercial

direct. advertising agencies portugal is in the midst of an unemployment epidemic around twenty percent of the population are out of work and those with jobs are facing salary cuts with many families trying to live on under five hundred euro a month as more and more portuguese people look to make a new life for themselves abroad just how easy is it to make that dream come i read . this is where ricardo comes in he often rates a website telling people what to expect when they decide to make the move. of marketing. and so it's not for everybody i saw a lot of people decide that they would move to somewhere like brazil only for it not to work out i tell them what to expect and how to make the right choice also there are so many scams out there people saying they will help you get

a work visa disappear right after they get your cash he's emigrating himself at the end of the year but he worries about the country he's leaving behind. you in. a serious brain drain in portugal oakum three educates people but can't employ people. so we're left with a grain population. that's graying population are all too aware of where the current situation will leave them here several times you stop my pension gets caught in time and time again soon i'll get nothing for my possibility that i will the day they ask me to go back towards. revealing for young people like a nation the decision is clear they are off to presume for a new life in a country they say can you give them what portugal just can't ask them in the fuzz same kids who don't want to be reach aren't move in for the money where i move in

so that one day we can earn enough to start a family leave normal lives here now if you can get a job it's all slave wages for perhaps three years that's not. feature all of the r.t. portugal. coming up here on r.g.p. the news if you needed to know when it comes to money prime interest is next. you know i've been asked a few times if i believe in conspiracy theories which is kind of an odd question i mean just in general believe in conspiracy theories like all of them even the ones that contradict each other i mean j.f.k. could have been killed by the mob the cia the k.g.b. and very secret societies at the same time or could he have been know what you just

declare themselves the official conspiracy theories that's silly obviously it isn't good just go around fishing for evil plots to explain every situation the mainstream media sure does lie a lot but i think they're telling the truth about that whole sky being blue thing but on the other hand if you never question what the glowing box in your house tells you that just makes you a sucker the kind of sucker who bought that there were magical mysterious invisible weapons of mass destruction in iraq and you know what in all honesty there's actually been real evil conspiracies that have been exposed like the tuskegee experiment and the fascist coup attempt against president roosevelt in one nine hundred thirty s. overall people think that spears the theories are a matter of belief but actually they're completely a matter of facts and there's a lot of good evidence to support a conspiracy and good arguments that maybe you should consider it but if someone tells you the president is actually a rip tell him from the cosmos you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion.

good afternoon welcome to prime and tourist i'm harry and boring and here is the topic that we're following today. game on as well the big banks are saying club syfy that's regulator speak for too big to fail is going on the off it executives from five of the biggest banks met in private to discuss their p.r. problem they also hired several former bush and obama administration officials to lobby congress their pitch well every additional dollar in capital they're required to hold translates into eight to ten dollars less to lend but according to the fed the biggest twenty five banks are already sitting on over six hundred billion dollars in extra cash which is not being lent from two thousand and seven to two thousand and eight but fannie and freddie tighten loans standards and eventually stop purchasing subprime loans altogether we all know what happens next well it's

like they're getting choosey again a new rule by the federal housing finance agency which oversees the housing giants would take effect next january and it would again timely and lending standards no word yet from the what obama's new nominee to head the agency but we'll get to him later now the dow hit fifteen thousand this week it is up substantially again today but have we seen the ultimate contrarian indicator the new york fed no less released a study that concludes stocks are about as cheap of a as they've ever been as well when irving fisher said in one thousand and twenty nine that stocks had reached a permanently high plateau saved and as we discussed is the same ability of current market and here's what's in your prime interest.

how would you like to get paid for being a facebook user well i found i found someone who thinks you should earlier i spoke with jaron lanier the father of virtual reality and author of who owns the future and his book he makes the case for the months of ation of personal information his work as a computer scientist won him a position on times one hundred most influential people he has also worked on projects at atari and microsoft and he founded research which was the first company to sell virtual reality products let's listen in to this fascinating conversation. in optimists because they see a way advancing technology can create a stronger middle class than ever before in the past the middle class has always

needed special little mechanisms to help it out because it wouldn't be stable otherwise sort of always being so or ten year or licenses that sort of thing i think if we acknowledge where value comes from individual networks it would turn out that a lot of people are valuable and we don't actually get the middle class more naturally than we have in the past so i'm actually an optimist. we keep on doing things the way we are we're all the wealth and the power concentrates around whoever happens to have the biggest computer at a given time and of course it's bleak and that's kind of what's been happening but i think we can change it ok and i wanted to get your thoughts on this in the one nine hundred fifty s. and the one nine hundred fifty s. the one nine hundred sixty s. people thought that robots were going to make all jobs obsolete and i have here this headline from the spokane day we chronicle in one thousand and five says that gadgets were going to wipe out complex industrial jobs but the productivity gains from lower cost items. cars allow people to do more with less money and less time

and there's a one of the reasons why the u.s. shipped if a manufacturing economy to a service based economy now regardless you know we don't see massive unemployment. might we see structural shift and employment towards new industries here and you know you can find wonderful headlines about fears that robots will take over jobs from the nineteenth century this is been going on for a while if you look at early karl marx from eight hundred forty this is what he was writing about this is where that all started and science fiction started that way too so this has a huge history and the reason why robots have not thrown people out of work is really simple it's because we've made a decision to still peak pay people even though their jobs got easier to do you know i mean it's really kind of a values decision somebody could have said hey you know it's so much easier to drive a car than it was to deal with horses why are we even paying cab drivers people love driving but we made a decision that you know it's ok it's ok we'll pay people even if they're not as miserable as they used to be to do their work and that's really what created the

middle class in the twentieth century the only thing that's changed recently is not people are still needed for the new machines and i'll give you some examples in a second of that the only thing that's changed is by deciding that information should be free we've decided that the more the economy becomes an information economy the less people you talk about this a lot you think we should be compensated for getting facebook or social media platforms our personal information sure why exactly do you think facebook should be paying me to give them my info but i'm sure it's fascinating in your case for one thing. another reason to let me give you an example right now you can upload a page of english and come back as a page of russian and that's magic but how does it really work the way it works is that the translating algorithms that google or microsoft have observed real translators doing real translations and then the pattern matcher example to those examples from real people and they mash. new result that's good enough to use but

the thing is we never that happens that means that the real people who provided the example data aren't getting paid and so what's happening now is that this incredible wealth and power concentration in both the financial markets and the media the dissent the gradual sinking of the middle class is being driven by these algorithms so that's why i mean that's a good point but also what about facebook and. the arab spring i mean this part for a while for people who are under to be able to communicate with each other and to coordinate and to overthrow dictatorships i mean how can we argue that this wasn't a good thing well you know i wasn't there and i'm i'm writing about the developed world which i feel i'm expert on the developing world it's not something where i feel i have expertise but i will say this i have friends from burma who point out that they had no internet and they still managed to achieve an improvement in their society similar you know maybe even they did little bit better we'll see how the story pans out and there's been river lucian's forever without the internet i mean

it kind of bugs me when my buddies in silicon valley call it the arab spring facebook revolution or twitter revolution because it's like it's disrespectful like basically if our tools help that's great but fundamentally they couldn't have been that important you know fifteen i think the internet is an important invention you know you can you know work on it my whole life i love the internet i love love love love love. i just i just can't look it's so simple. as we create new efficiencies or create new technologies we have to do it in a way that we're not also sneaking in a phony bit of ideology where we undervalue the contributions from everybody we can't all the people who provide the data that makes it work you're going to live in this informal way where you're only getting reputation and promoting which are what about how you know about higher as we saw the reports last month when being tax day virus is starting to you social media platforms to look for tax cheats and we've already seen facebook being used to. good evidence in criminal cases i mean what about the the privacy issues here where facebook is now paying us for every

nation and they would have more of a right to use it to give no not really you know that facebook something you it's person to person payment if facebook's paying you that it just concentrates more power people have to be first class citizens and here's how and here's the answer to your question right now let's let's before the internet when ever there was a police force the people have to pay the police to in turn buy their cars and their guns right you don't give the police a blank check and say everything is free there's a constraint based on budget that's how democracy works if that happens for information when the government tracks you they have to say if you pay me for seeing you on a camera there's a budgetary constraint to keep it from getting out of control it might not be enough but at least there will be part of a solution because otherwise we'll never keep ahead of the programmers there's no way like legislators will be able to do that and moving on to a financial top if they have some really interesting thoughts on high frequency trading i really want to get your thoughts on how you really this is with an

official if that's not where you sure look i have a bunch of buddies who are quansah and i've seen the rise of trading from its birth and look the deal is the usual justification for it because if you look at it you say wow it happened so fast there's not even time for information from the real world to get into it so how computers are free and so how can it be about anything other than sort of exploiting math and they say well the answer is that it detects little flick through ations and if we counsel those out we're making the market more efficient so we're actually earning our keep but if there was a monopoly and there was only one high frequency trader that might be true but since there's multiple ones they get into resonances with each other and they're actually detect each other's artificially created little signals so that they're just milking the market to no purpose so it's one of those things that would be real if it was a monopoly but when there's multiple ones it's no longer real arms race to the bottom. in that high variance of trading. it's going to be remembered is a pretty stupid think of it the thing is the math is so intriguing like the thing

is i could almost see doing it just because it's fun like it's a great toy like if you're mathematically inclined or you like computer science what a great thing but. it's going like a video game it's addictive for the people who work on it even aside because they make money on it you know it's like with a great video game and you make money so i totally get why people like it but at some point of course you have to realize it's stupid well that brings up another point with you being in your work in mathematica computational science but you're also a very accomplished musician do you think how has being involved in mathematics and computer science develop your artistic ability. do you think. your brain in a way so you can see the musical patterns you know i mean one thing is in my work in computer science it's really been interested in user interface when ever i look at trying to do better user interfaces i always look to musical instruments and they're the best ones ever made so it kind of gives me

a sense of humility about how little we've done so far and how far we have to go to have perfect pitch no i mean actually you know it's twenty if i don't think about it i do but if i think about it i don't so it's one of those things that's kind of on the edge for me i don't necessarily want it i don't want to be skilled as a musician i want to be sort of intuitive and it's a different kind of goal do you hear or see you know. if you. see color is there anything sinister you know a little bit i'm really interested in it virtual reality is all about exploiting synesthesia news and studying so doubt on your point of virtual reality that we now have the virtues speer. your kind of it's like the star star star trak holiday you know we've all seen star wars our move all seen avatar so how close are we to actually having a virtual reality and how will that change our socio economic structure. well you know. all the digital gadgets change the socio economic structure not based on

the the technology is never the problem it's always the power structure so every single technology that we've talked about i actually like you know i i think some sort of a high frequency trading thing to make markets more efficient might make sense it's just it's the structure all the power and most goes to ever has the biggest computer that's the problem but that's a different question than the technology has a lot of money say what if you spend your whole life saving all your money so i want to you can finally afford the biggest computer and going to power you know they're expensive they're like cities at this point i mean they're it's no small thing and so but it's a very hard game to get or who has the biggest computer the very biggest ones in the world i'm not sure i mean in the sciences we know it's in american law but in terms of in all of the politics and money stuff well there's the contenders are the national intelligence agencies the big financial schemes the big california consumer facing companies social network and search the big insurance companies who will win the big elections run that way now to so those are those are the

contenders. that was jason lanier the author of who owns the future and who is mel watt up next i'm going to profile president obama's nominee for the federal housing finance agency and then our tea party is there bob inglis and i will discuss the fed the botched and the pendant foreclosure review process you won't want to miss that. live. well live science technology

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i last week president obama nominated north carolina congressman mel watt as director of the federal housing finance agency this is the agency that oversees the fannie mae and freddie mac. now his nomination garnered both bipartisan support and criticism tennessee senator .