automate work and that's the appropriate thing to do, but it's naÏve to think that that's the unidirectional the only force going on. we love that story because it shows the ends of technology and automation realizing they still need humans involved in this process, but we could kind of amplify their abilities with a lot of smart technology in the background. >> in the broader lesson that's been applied is that each of those pairs, were not thing time turn the dial all the way to one extreme, worsening thinking about the balance. sometimes it makes sense to go automated but in most cases you need to find balance in the balance is more toward machines platforms and cloud that i think more individuals realize, but it's not as simple. >> this question comes up a lot. what you see is areas that are most resistant to the advent of machines and computers? we were talking earlier about a part in your book for you mention this famous saying, would you like to quote it. >> andrew bird set a while back that the only thing, the only difference between a completely unlinked series of observation and a h

to the extent that voting, one of absent flows, a unidirectional march forward. and what the responses have been that helped to turn the direction from a retreat to greater inclusion and separateln some of your writings focused on and often overlooked point that expansions in voting sometimes followed military conflict in war to the extent we have been in a sustained period of military conflict i'm wondering if the present circumstance you describe against the historical pattern is a discontinuity, right now we are not increasing or expanding but retreating andd separately for marry ellen curtin i am fascinated by the fact we have marched through the white primary president, lbj after all, barbara jordan, northwest boston case, a federalist decision this week in texas. why is texas so centrally situated in the american story of voting? i put those questions to our existing which panelists for their views. >> let me start with the war issue.t for those who have not mastered this, one of the arguments of the book i wrote about this is every major expansion of the f