you know what a distopia is? >> i'll leave you to define it. >> the opposite of the utopia. >> is obama facing a revolt from the left right now? you follow me? >> i don't think so. >> very minor. >> a lot of people had faith and confidence and belief. the idealistic obamaites a losing their idealism. >> not on this issue. a lot of young people think, what's the big deal? all of this stuff should be out. >> i disagree. people talking about this and pretty much making a laughing stock of the president. >> a big deal for young people. i mean, this privacy stuff with libertarians. >> he, dis appointed for what he was on. >> current issue of the london review of books. >> right. >> it is marvelous writing and he takes the view that what is happening is very dangerous. issue three. u.s., china trade talks. >> high level meetings between the u.s. and chinese. the u.s., china strategic conference with secretary of state, john kerry, and jack speaking for the u.s. the hot button talk of china's currency. which is why they

distopia has to be interesting.opia, everything is already solved. >> this is like an infomercial. exactly. looking back, does it seem that people were more optimistic about the future than they are now? >> sometimes they were a little optimistic in the past and too pessimistic today. disease has fealen around the world dramatically. you know, the cards we drive, the homes we live in are so much more efficient and safer and more capable. but we tend to really romanticize the past and ka at that time throw fiez the present. >> the comic is a great routine. flying one. isn't that great? >> i had to sit on the runway for 40 minutes. oh, my god. really? what happened then? did you fly through the air like a bird? i had to pay for my sandwich. you're flying! you're sitting in a chair in the sky. >> people take amazing things for granted like my phone is so slow. it's like, wait. your phone is connecting you to the entire world. >> reporter: without a cord and you're walking down the street. >> osgood: ahead... it looks l