if you were a plan in first class you had a better chance of surviving than in you were a small childn thi class it seems tobe about technology and overconfidence in technology, which is something we're very interested in still, obviously. and the limits of technology. so all of these things seem to be sort of over determined. you know, in one story, you get class, you get overweaning arrogance, you get technological overconfidence and it all comes together and you future in the most beautiful, biggest ship ever built and it sinks on a piece of ice in the middle of the ocean. >> on its maiden voyage. you write in a piece, you begin with the fact that your uncle when you were age 12 enrolled you in a club called titanic enthusiasts of america. and i won't try to speculate on what your age may be, but have the themes that resonate changed over time, at least here in the u.s.? >> i don't think so well, i mean it could be. i think at the very beginning there was a tremendous amount of anguish about the class issue, you know it was very shocking when this first came out that the scales were