please join me in welcoming anthony townsend. >> good evening everybody. thank you for joining me tonight. it's been a tumultuous time in the country and i appreciate your attention given all the other distractions. feel free to monitor twitter, cnn and whatever else you have running in the other window because there's a lot that needs to be paid attention to and i understand the distraction. one of the things that has been charring launching this book in the pandemic has been the need to re-examine the conclusions in evidence because the book was written over the course of the last three years. i think i've done a pretty good job as a forecaster and a lot of the things that have been fast forwarded at us from the future in the last couple of months, namely around the increase in delivery to homes is something that i think came on very quickly. but in the last week we've basically seen the future kind of fannish. i think we are in a weird period for forecasting where it's coming at us fast. it's going to be a feared conversation to talk about technology so

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