i'm andrew leonard from salon.com, and now the meeting of the commonwealth club of california, the place where you are in the know, is adjourned. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we would like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> the context here is that lee and his reputation in the modern-day as someone who counseled acceptance and submission and resignation to the situation. and that has always struck me as, it's a sort of series that doesn't add up in the sense that we know he was the most prestigious man in the south but were told the counseled submission but we know in the end the south didn't submit to the will of the north. they begin very quickly to contest the northern understanding of the meaning of the war and peace in northern plans for reconstruction. and violent means. what i found is that in the eyes of confederates, lee was not a symbol of submission. he was a symbol of the kind of unbowed pride and a kind of measured defiance spent rethink in grant and lee at appomattox sunday morning at 11 eastern to part of

i am andrew leonard from salon.com your moderator for this evening's program. to my left is eric or nielsen and andrew mcafee who are business researchers at the m.i.t. sloan school of management. eric is the director of the m.i.t. center for -- and enters the principle for research science. the two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with eric self-published book race against the machine which coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. they follow followed this up with a bigger book work and prosperity in a time of brilliant technology. and it is really i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is in san francisco and the greater bay area. there is a lot of tension about how the tech economy is changing everybody's lives and where we are headed from there. the second machine age directly tackles both the promise of technology and some potential challenges it poses. i think we would like to start before questions giving a brief summary of their

i am andrew leonard from salon.com your moderator for this evening's program. to my left is eric or nielsen and andrew mcafee who are business researchers at the m.i.t. sloan school of management. eric is the director of the m.i.t. center for -- and enters the principle for research science. the two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with eric self-published book race against the machine which coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. they follow followed this up with a bigger book work and prosperity in a time of brilliant technology. and it is really i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is in san francisco and the greater bay area. there is a lot of tension about how the tech economy is changing everybody's lives and where we are headed from there. the second machine age directly tackles both the promise of technology and some potential challenges it poses. i think we would like to start before questions giving a brief summary of their

on your moderate, andrew leonard, from salon.com. you can your commonwealth club programs on the radio and also see video of the programs online on our youtube channel. just jumping off what you just said, a couple of questions you are asking what you think a basic guaranteed income as a response to this issue. which seems to be the opposite of a negative tax, or is that -- >> very closely related to let me go by what andrew was an. we think you can do a lot to reallocate the way income is divided, but the thing that andy and i focus on is something more like an expanded earned income tax credit. let me explain the reasoning for that distinction. both of them are ways of getting income into the hands of more people, some of the people who have benefited as much from the technology. we've been very convinced first but a quote we came across, work solves three great evils. wortham, vice and me. the point is it's not just about they need. it's also about a sense of meaning and other values. and to be more scientific about it, bob putnam

i'm the moderator andrew leonard from salon.com. you can hear commonwealth club programs on the radio and also see video of the programs on line on our youtube channel. just jumping off what you just said a couple of questions here asking what you think of a security income as a response to this issue. which seems to be the opposite of a negative tax. >> the they are very closely related. let me build on what andrew was saying. we think you can do a lot to reallocate the way income is divided but the thing that andy and i focus on is something more like an expanded unearned income tax credit and let me explain the reason for the distinction. both of them are ways of getting into the hands of more people who haven't benefited as much from technology but we have been convinced first by a quote we came across from bolts here who actually said work solves three great evils order them, vice in need. the point is it's not just about the need it's also about a sense of meaning and other values and to be a little bit more scientific about i