. >> well, coming up next, a discussion between authors michael and douglas ruchecoff and its impact, both positive and negative on the world. it's about an hour and 10 minutes. [applause] >> hi. so, welcome, everybody. i'm doug, and we thought we would start by talking a couple minutes and go back and forth a little and probably have time to open it up to you, and i'm going to start because if you know anything about doug, you know that you shouldn't speak after him, and he's graciously allowed me to take advantage of that fact and go first, so i wanted to talk a little why i wrote wikileaks in the age of >> it is much more spontaneous phenomena, one that anybody can start. you don't need permission to create something that has the potential to go global. you just need something compelling that you want to say, and thanks to the network with the small end, not the old networks like abc and nbc and things like that, but it can spread and the effects in which we're living in constantly now. the other thing that's changing is the way that information, itself, data is becoming more perva