of science fiction.t is also a gothic. it is also tremendously influential in the genres of fantasy and horror. ," firsty "flatland published in 1884, a romance of many dimensions by a square, the story of the two dimensional being encountering the third dimension. imagine you are a two-dimensional drawing. you live on a page, you can move these ways, and suddenly someone ons the tip of a pencil that page -- there is another dimension out there. that is "flatland." it is not the most thrilling read, but for this year density density of sheer density of ideas, it is marvelous. what science fiction does is hand you ideas that make your brain go -- 100 years after "flat , thiswas published edition of "flatland" was created. it is not a codex. it is not a book with pages bound to its side, it is an accordion book. so you can read "flatland" in two dimensions. 1997is the april 18 cosmopolitan magazine, not our modern cosmo. in it appeared the first installment of a story by hg wells called "the war of the wor

make everything up you want to read fiction why which is why fiction finally for me is a more truthful more rich way of noticing the world and for me. many successful novels are adapted into films so it's surprising that only one of richard ford's books has made it onto the silver screen the drama wild life released in twenty eighteen is based on his novel of the same title set in montana in the one nine hundred sixty s. it's the story of how a sixteen year old joe's life goes off the rails first his father loses his job. and then his mother falls in love with another man and consequently leaves her family. to you could see it as a melancholy farewell to the american dream and its ideals like so many of richard ford's books you. love so why is it that only one of his best selling novels has been made into a film. i mean by and large american movies are terrible. and so. maybe my books are terrible enough. so i mean paul they know just made wild life and. i've seen it it's really quite good. but you know novels. that i write generally are all taken up with language and with the new with

but fiction can do something, 5everal after reading a novel.y, whichjournalism can do something, several things, actually, which journalism can't can do something, several things, actually, whichjournalism can't do, which political speeches can't do. the muscle that it makes us exercise is our imaginative muscle. it makes you more imaginative, to read novels. and imaginatively crossing over and trying to inhabit the mindsets of people with whom you disagree, that is one of the most important tasks we face, i think. wien britain right now are less able to make imaginative leaps then we used to be. —— we in britain. because we are now so consumed used to be. —— we in britain. because we are now so consumed by this tribalism, in rout, saw them, black or white. it may be a failure of imagination. it may be, you know, a failure of the public discourse or the online discourse, a kind of online way of thinking which reduces everything to like or dislike, to binary oppositions. i am not sure what it is, really. but i feel that a novel has, can have, a

for all genre fiction. in fact there was a points, years ago. wikipedia decided they would break out women's a thor authorm american novelist there was a huge uproar, they took all women out of american novelist page. if you want a subcategory great, but keep the women with american novelist too. >> was there a thought process, let's make sure they get as well or just -- >> nobody consulted me. but when you eckert the group but you don't -- you make them a subset without keeping them a part of a larger group. >> do have you any idea how much of our reader are reader. >> i do, i was tired of being called a women's fiction author a tracked it for three months, 50% of my fan mail is from men, they said, i'm sure i'm the only man who is reading your book. against have you been conditioned as men to read male a a thors, i say, i hear from many men, i love when men read my stuff, they take away different things from now novels from women. i would urge men who are watching, go to your book shelf, do you read a female author for every male a author that

i think when i was overseas, when i was in england crime fiction had over taken than general fiction as most popular genre for the first time ever and people asked me why i thought that was, if you can't get what you want in the real world you turn to fiction. in thrillers, crime fiction, you have good people and bad people and then the good people get justice and the truth comes out and ending it as it's supposed to end. you can't get that in real life. >> but this is the home of christy and sherlock holmes. >> no, crime fiction is really big over there and really has been. this year for the first time ever overtook general literature as number one genre. i think that's one of the reasons why. >> we will get how that started. you have a caller. brian in sin city, iowa. >> caller: good morning, you said condition started because of injury in football, is his perfect recall something that he can recall things before the injury or the perfect recall for things that happened after football injury? >> guest: that's a great question, it's different for different people. with decker it can

pulp fiction had to make do with a single oscar for best original screenplay. remember oscar so white the hashtags starred in protest out of the twenty six thousand oscars highlighted the long history of discrimination and exclusion of minorities from the academy awards the campaign shook up the academy its membership now is much more diverse as are the oscar nominees but way back in one thousand nine hundred the academy had the chance to do the right thing and on or a groundbreaking film from an african-american director but they blew it. director spike lee plays movie a pizza delivery boy in this blistering masterpiece about racism in the united states. that i'm. not going to go for i don't know what about work back this is the man oh all right all right back to my life always do the right thing. that's it that's it i got it i'm got. smart and funny go with snap approach the end of the film starts out like a comedy. but in this hot summer in new york tensions are on the rise in movies boss south finally loses his cool the result is carnage. it's not clear if

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all science fiction films. in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight director stanley kubrick rewrote the rules of cinema in a way that continues to amaze and inspire. this conversation can serve no purpose anymore today on keynote we're doing a deep dive into two thousand and one we're holding our entire show the stanley kubrick's sayf i class like film turns fifty this year but two thousand and one is still way ahead of its time. when kubrick began putting aside five masterpiece together in the mid one nine hundred sixty s. americans and c.v.s. were vying to be the first to reach the moon to develop a visionary but believable set design kubrick hired nasa experts who had worked with rocket pioneer vanna for brown the frankfurt show explores how meticulous late every technical detail was planned. kubrick was the first to use product placement this futuristic watch from a luxury brand hamilton went on sale as the film opened but only a few original props are preserved kubrick destroyed most of them. this is a r

i delved into fiction and film, music, poetry, photography, art. i cast a really broad net, basically. just to kind of set up what we're talking about, it is the fall of 1864, late in the war. grant and lee are outside petersburg, where we are exactly. sherman's army took control of

going to fiction is all but eliminated but there is that is very feel that this is not true. so just that forty four percent of people in india in two lanes in northern parts still defecate in the open so. and also you know the thing about the beliefs of all larger beats and not using smaller pieces these are related to your notions of. not wanting to clean their own feet and the government has this was a great opportunity for the government to address these the only place notions and make people understand the significance of these inexpensive smaller people are trained right now as i call it from the research institute for compassionate economics in delhi thank you very much for speaking to us. and some feedback from our u two page on yesterday's story one of the prospects of peace with the taliban we are asked why the of government doesn't have a seat at the table to that of this response from k. back up the afghan government is a puppet government put in place by the united states they don't represent the afghan people i think they will fall after the u.s. leaves also a r

that is science fiction. that is a robot that is creative and doesn't how to do something it all figured out and that is a technology that nobody knows how to build. and if you ask us personally how that technology the consensus range is between five and 500 years which is suggests that if you drop your laundry off at the dry cleaner and they said it would be ready in five to 500 days, there's nothing really useful in that. and when you hear people telling you you should be afraid of ai, it's a threat, it is dangerous as nuclear weapons, it's important to realize that they are talking about a technology, they are talking about agi, a technology we don't really know how to build. you can argue whether it's false or not. the people who believe that we are going to build and build intimately, don't believe that because they know how to but because they have a very simple assumption and that people are machines. and that your brain is a machine, and nothing in you -- everything and you can be described on a white

. >> stranger than fiction, nobody would write a script like this. >> the most stunning twist is what didn't happen. >> my mom said don't you [ bleep ] die. that hit me harder than the bullets, my mom never swore. >> holoand welcome to "dateline." derrick ward was a hollywood stunt man, who made a living pulling off death defying acts. one night, he opened the door for a stranger, and found himself in the miftsds a terrifying scene that was too real. he was looking down the barrel of a gun. moments later, four shots rang out. and soon, investigators would be embroiled in a whodunit with more suspects -- >> ready, action. >> action! >> it ranked second only to money. as the single most important word in hollywood. here in l.a., where life and art are often the same thing -- there is a real life drama that rivals any action movie with a plot that includes all the elements of classic film noir. a mystery, featuring an assassin, a fem fatashlgs a hollywood star, and a stunt man who takes the fall. as for the money, we will get to that start with the biggest name on the marquis. joe pesci,

it is a different story, from fictional. i think you could get in more story with fiction, because you could distort perception. >> i can't necessarily pick apart a case study in terms of what not to do, but i can tell you the pitfalls that i would like to avoid and look at in social justice, is definitely stereotyping. i think you can't tell the story. you always have to aim for authenticity of experience and emotion. too often there is a great story that is in the space and it is the stereotype. it is the caricature. it is not diving deep into the real experience and what you are trying to say. i think another pitfall is being too preachy and trying to engage people and bring them into this to experience emotion. so, to be finger wagging is offputting for a lot of folks, so how do you say what you want to say in a way that people can hear it? those are the pitfalls i think. a balancing act. >> how about for you, bill? >> ideal, certainly in nonfiction. i try, anyway. i feel a responsibility here, as the representative of a

it wound around fiction a through l curling in lazy ringlets.it gathered into soft puffs that bob and banked against the shelves like bumper cars. suddenly, sharp fingers of flame shot through the smoke and jabbed upward, more flames erected, the heat bills, the temperature reached 451 ° and the books began smoldering. there covers burst like popcorn. pages flared and blackened and spraying away from their bindings, a ream of city scraps soaring on the updraft. the fire flashed through fiction, consuming as it traveled. it reached for the cookbooks. the cookbooks roasted. the fire scrambled to the sixth tier of the stack and in the seventh. every book in its path bloomed with flame. at the seventh tear the fire banked into the concrete ceiling, doubled back and mushroomed down again to the sixth tier. it poked around looking for more air and fuel. pages and book jackets and microfilm and magazines crumbled and vanished. on the sixth tier, flames crowded against the walls of the stack and decided to move laterally. the fire burned through sixth t

is he confusing a fictional movie plot? >> i think he's lying. don, i told you before.little something about men. after their voice cracks, you're not going to change them. donald trump has been lying his entire life. this guy lied about the draft. this guy lied about how much he's worth. this guy lied about the money he got from his father. this guy would call and lie about himself as john miller. he has been lying his entire life, and he consumes an enormous amount of tv. so i think it's both things coming together. his pathological lying, he's like a character on "saturday night live", the liar on the news update, the weekend news update. that's the president of the united states and he's gotten away with it his entire life. he's not used to the level of scrutiny that comes with being president. >> scott, you saw miguel's story. agents find prayer rugs, the president tweeted about that just a couple weeks ago. is this more squacare tactics designed to frighten people? what is going on? >> i think it's enough to sell the case for border security. we have a problem wit

it's fiction, right. >> show me your hands! >> reporter: there are prayer rugs in the film. the president tweeted about prayer rugs found on the border who quotes an anonymous new mexico rancher who had no evidence of the prayer rugs. the film also features terrorist who is pay drug cartels to bring them into the country. something else on the president's mind. >> people are pouring into our country, including terrorists. we have terrorists. we caught ten terrorists over the last very short period of time. ten. these are very serious people. >> reporter: that claim appears to be the president accidentally or willfully misunderstanding a customs and border patrol statistic that ten suspected terrorists, on average, are blocked every day from entering the u.s., mostly by flying at locations worldwide. and then, there's duct tape. the president has that on his mind, too. >> they come in, they nab women, they grab them, they put tape over their mouth, they tie their hands. they have tape over their mouths, electrical tape, usually blue tape, as they call it. >> reporter: ten tim

it's interesting to see the way that those fictions were internalized into policy agend agendas. now, when i talk to george gordon who ran the college division of young voters for president, he said that's just a bunch of junk. they went after college voters and they were conservatives on campuses and when you talk about the fact that nixon was winning over young working-class voters, yes, he was. but it's relative to where they had that. he was splitting it. classics dividing and conquer, in that fashion. the idea that that plays out according to that, i found it's wrong. but it still inspired a lot of critical thinking as far as they target this group. it's definitely something they had to keep down. i think it's interesting that unfortunately we have no more time. can we give one more round of applause. [applause] if you haven't purchased the book and you would like to, they are available at the register. he will be here, ready to sign. thanks everybody. >> here are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books. according to the "wall street journal". topping the list is b

he was awarded a new york foundation of the arts fellowship in fiction for the story cartoon "a prisoner of google island" which appeared for years in weekly newspapers run the country and is currently collaborating on a picture book. let's welcome david borchart. [applause]. if you will bear with me for about 30 seconds and let me get re- situated and bob will start. be prepared to entertain and i hope you brought your best laugh with you. >> a lot of pressure. that's a lot of pressure. we will take a picture while we are waiting. at the count of three, everyone, look like i'm interesting. one, two, three. great. [laughter] i'm going to step aside here-- oh, i'm sorry. i thought i had to get out of the way. i will just sit down. >> over your head here. >> i think we will see silhouettes of our head. carol left, actually. [laughter] went to get a muffin. it gets better. [laughter] >> you are a cartoonist, not a humorist. >> i have the microphone, though >> we are ready to go. >> thank you. i'm going to explain a bit about myself and my starts. put my glasses on. carol, you can move forwa

it really is fiction. that's the problems for putting this on the air. the networks, i hope, struggled with the decision to put this on because he consistently hasn't told the truth. someone's got to fact check that. if i were an executive, which i'm not, i wouldn't put this on live, i'd let him give the address and look at it and find out, what's true and what's not or say, give me the text in advance and let us decide what's true and what's not because we shouldn't be using our public air waves for someone to spew more of these lies. you have a president trying to create hysteria for his own political purposes not to protect the american people. >> to be clear, there's no precedent for that. there's no precedent for the networks getting the presidential text beforehand and deciding whether it's true or not. this is the first request from this president to address the nation from the oval office, thus it has a certain weight and importance. ted koppel former anchor of "nightline" said, look, david gregory, we have to give the president the benefit of th

you've written a dozen fiction books where does the creativity come from how do you go about this?>> guest: i know one thing after doing this for 20 years, i'm not that special. i just know if i love something there's got to be other people out there that like it just as much. that's what happened in the escape artist. i was honored to go do it. that's when i got there we all know dover air force base even if you don't, you know the flag covered coffins coming off the planes and it was like this place is going to be incredible to write about. when i got there i realized i thought it was going to be a transaction buti i thought like writing about the white house or the capitol, i'm going to go in, they will tell me the secret stuff and i will write a book that's when i got there it was different and i was humbled by what i saw. you have the men and women that will spend 12 hours rewiring someone's jaw smoothing it over so a family can get a good look at their sons were rebuilding a handth from scratch because a mother wants to hold her son's hand one last time i don't care what your

no i'm not talking about science fiction fantasy i'm talking about military industrial science backed killer robots the cute shorthand for a new fast growing segment of military technology and hardware called autonomous weapons weapons that are run by artificial intelligence that require no human involvement when selecting and executing targets imagine predator drones operating themselves patrolling a border war zone and dropping bombs on targets i was programmed to detect as a threat no human operator in the mobile home r.v. in new mexico involved whatsoever. frightens you you're not alone in the new polling released on tuesday by the k.

fictional what is fact. digital investigators combing through the flood of images and they combine sources trying to reconstruct what happened and to substantiate claims of crimes spanx to this video recording but i have a soldier who shot the young man is on trial now. forensics between bits and bytes. i have the. same thing again. the evidence. is iffy chance because justice is about the truth. truth detectives starts a venue where we just team on t.w. . don't fret nothing set in stone yet but it feels as if second place biron will never catch up with table toppers dortmund how does that feel. committed.

my guest today is an internationally acclaimed author whose prolific output of fiction is rooted deepsoil and the shoreline of his native western australia, a land of harsh beauty, where life rarely comes easy. tim winton‘s latest novel, the shepherd's hut, focuses on a troubled young man wrestling with demons, and it comes at an opportune time, with the me too movement demanding an end to ingrained sexism, misogyny and toxic masculinity. is australia redefining what it means to be a good bloke? tim winton, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you have travelled the world, you have even lived in europe, but it seems when you write, your writing, and your stories, always take you back home to western australia. why is that? i'm not sure. i think it's notjust what i know, but it's what i live and breathe, it just seems endlessly... it's just — there's more stories. there's more to write about. the older i get, the more i see in it. it seems like you almost feel the landscapes, the soil and the coastline, of course, because you write a great deal about the coast, it almost feels like it shape

sounds like science fiction?in chemistry for designing and making the "world's smallest machines". he's already working with technology that creates medical micro—robots and other materials that can repair themselves without human intervention. professor feringa is in singapore for the global young scientists summit, and is with me now in the studio. creating the world's smallest machines, called nano machines. what are they? they are really small. we can't see them ? are they? they are really small. we can't see them? a million times smaller. i can't bring them because you can't see them. why are they so important? in daily life, we use machines for everything, factories, aeroplanes. 0ur body is full of tiny machines, nano—machines machines, a billion times smaller than a metre soap to be able to speak, of your hand, move your body, so we build tiny machines come one ——, 1 billion ofa tiny machines come one ——, 1 billion of a metre inside. so many zeros. what other health benefits of these nano—machines? what ot

but the whwhole thing is a fiction he then annououncede woululd shut down the governmement and t there hae been very -- widespread r ramifications because of this and i thihik now t the presidentnt is tag stock of the e thing that matterss to o him mostst whs the the political support even a among his base.. the support is eroding he's down belowow 40% in the pols now and the the r replican senators -- several of ththem are goingo be up foror reelectionn in - twenty twenty wiwillave to face the voters and there been some amazing things here that can be used against them even and read it we previously safafe districts so t that's making people nervous for the first time. and thehere may b be reasono believe ferment we there will be a deal to keep the gogovernment open. we heard him and the announcement praising the federal workers who have been -- either furloughed or working without pay for the last thirty five days saying that they didn't complain that they were even encouraging him. to continue -- but does this leave him. in an even worse negotiating spot than he was before thi- the

this one you might call stranger than fiction. the president's frequent claims and similarities with a certain film are just a little too -- scripted. sicario. the 2018 sequel starring josh brolin is a dark and violent take on the u.s.-mexico border, drug cartels and u.s. government efforts to disrupt them. it's fiction. right? there are prayer rugs in the film. the president tweeted about prayer rugs found on the border from a story in the conservative washington examiner which quotes an anonymous new mexico rancher who had no evidence of the prayer rugs. the film features terrorists who paid drug cartels to bring them into the country, something else on the president's mind. >> people are pouring into our country including terrorists. we have terrorists. we caught ten terrorists over the last short period of time. ten. these are very serious people. >> reporter: that claim appears to be the president accidentally or willfully misunderstanding a customs and border patrol report that ten on average are blocked every day from enter

yes it is fiction in real fiction but you include historical facts in it, you are dealing with what people are facing, can you talk a little bit about the balance of that. how do you address what is happening in the world in your book, keep it real, make it recognizable but also remember that you are writing for young people and you do not want to re- traumatize them. what is the balance between hope and struggle and all of that? anybody? >> i will start, my first book, american street, deals with violence. there is a lot of shoot them up bang bang, drugs and all of the serious things that we are used to seen with black children in urban spaces. i was careful to humanize their spaces. by humanizing i was making them fully human and that if there is a villain, or a drug vila or they make wrong choices, there is always a reason why those things have happened, that they do those things. i was telling young people to school visit that i always remember that hurt people hurt people. and you you know that even we can do that with black children when we tell the truth about their experiences. my

but ironically it was the republicans who tapped into to what some called a science-fiction preview of a future campaign. so really looking at richard nixon's campaign and that way reframes who he was in political history. so the story really begins in 1968 would richard nixon struggled with youth politics. and this was really for two major reasons. the first is that youth politics was divided. when we think about youth politics before 1968 and was basically being pushed forward by ideologues on the right that we associate with young americans for freedom. who had formed in the 1960s, who were very influential in drafting goldwater. informed her really crucial of conservatives as they were called. that pushed barry goldwater's disastrous campaign in 1964. and so how richard nixon would win over these young voters became a big? and in fact he couldn't. they were really more loyal to ronald reagan. as a presidential candidate. in preferred him over richard nixon. there was a contest in 1960 between the two ends of the organizations that were really pushing you politics on the right were

i think fiction is powerful. i spend a lot of time telling my -- expecting my parents to tell me details, give me more details details and the beautiful thing but fiction is you don't need the details. you can make them up but you're not lying. you're still telling the truth, there's still an emotional truth to it. [applause] >> i really identify with grace in a strange way as a child. i don't remember the exact age i first picked up the book. seems like i always knew about it, but the thing about grace was iive identifiedded with her love of stories, hearing stories, acting them out but she possessed a quality i wanted so badly which is how outgoing and brash she was and i was always very shy, quiet child and felt like this is how i'm suppose told be, supposed to be like grace the way i am is wrong. a very mixed -- i had a very mixed emotions with this story that it also really loved. and grace stayed with me throughout my teenaged years, into adulthood and only fairly recently i got another copy of the book for

of it that it created a potential of becoming a reality, science-fiction level of control that even george orwell wouldn't have been able to imagine and that is the social credit system. if you're not failure with it, it is a combined kind of, the companies in china are state linked so you have the ability to gather data on activities in a person's life and it will be used to create a single numeric score of someone's perceived trustworthiness in the eye of companies and the government itself. it is like a credit score but goes beyond it. so for example if you buy diapers your score goes up because you are a good parent. if you play video games for too long your score goes down because you are screwing around. it is a network so it is not just your own activity, it is the activities of all the other people in your network. so for example if your brother complains about the service at the government run hospital, he is a complainer, your score goes down so you go to your brother and say knock it off. the score matters because it translates into real-world rewards and potential punish

thank you for doing the fiction edition. i've wanted to ask [inaudible] i've enjoyed that and read it manyd times. i've looked at it as being one of the best books ever has been written, period and i just want to tell you how much i enjoy your folks but i never look at you as i young adult writer. i figure with james baldwin, toni morrison, and i want to thank you for all the great work you've done. >> host: robert what is it about "if you come softly"? >> caller: the way that she uses the words so poetically. sometimes as adults we get older and we think that love is different as adults, but when you find that kind of love at that age it stays with you for a lifetime and the characters in the book were so strong that i've never forgotten it. it's still one of the best stories i've read. >> host: what do you do? >> caller: i'm a typical operator. >> caller: thank you so much. >> guest: think you've made my day. any time someone uses james baldwin in the same sentence as mine i get very happy. that is telling of romeo and jul

that's why we love historian fiction. so it's fun. it's actually fun to understand, do the work, a little bit of research, and find out what was happening when your individual family members were doing what they do, and finally i would say that then makes it relevant for someone beyond your family members to read the book. suddenly you have made a document that has historical context, has resonance now, has its place in history. so, go tell those stories. go tell. >> thank you. well, it's time for us to end this panel and i hope you get a chance to meet these wonderful ladies and writers in person but if you still with us, still awake, let's properly thank them. [applause] >> so thank you again, thank you for coming. >> thank you, guys. [inaudible conversations] >> starting now it's the final author discussion from the well-read black girl testimony. authors asks the importance of james bolted win's "if beale street could talk." >> i would like to

you have a couple of non-fiction, especially topical books, right?yes, first is the line becomes a river by francisco cantu. he's a young writer who studied and borders and immigration in college and wanted to t eer himself. so he becomes a border patrol agent working in the sou his mother warned him against taking the job, she said the soul can buckle in a job like. this his -- a job like this. his did. he had nightmares and glt, he's trying to discourage migrts by taking their sulies but also tries to help them in the right trial to have the year at the crossing.t >> i wento the desert with him to talk about the book. >> and you really et a sense o place with this book. what i like about it io much s that we're having all these big policy debates over immigration right now, and the dilemmas that cantu face are the dilemmas the country spacing no an honest, empathetic story of one person. next up is "good and mad" by rememberda traster, from new york magazine, a written about female anger through politics, came out in the midst of the brett kavanau

of the american dream that black people do not have that luxury of engaging in fiction so the metaphor that you can see the hauntings so i do think it's present but not always tapped into but if we take that gift of the tradition seriously and with that approach there are people who will approach that as a condition of deprivation versus reality so i do think there is a responsibility. and also maybe when you have the formulation you think your suffering is wholly unique but that is also a recognition but also the residents of what you can see of algerians in paris and recognize an instant bowl - - instant bowl and with that i wish play role one - - playwright there is something about that particular experience and that it is one of our gifts. [applause] and then to have the ability to do so. even if you don't agree and something that baldwin did with beale street is to show different types of black people. because we don't always have to agree on everything. there is no one definition of black. so just to be super open to that. and as an actor, you take on what somebody else has writt

the media around the world do with their reports projecting for you all of the winner this creates fiction what isn't acceptable these documents could be easily tempered with and we don't want war another person writes in saying that it is western t.v. and radio stations that are trying to interfere in the decision of the justice and trying to proclaim for the winner so clearly there are people here who are skeptical about the need for a recount. exactly let's have one of the rican come people are saying these ballot papers away had they been thinking all the time if there is a recount what guarantee do we have that they have not been tampered with in terms of waste and influence brunt of the very very vocal about this election they feel that martin for you is the one who won this election not just the katie i think you know he does had a meeting in ethiopia today on thursday and they basically thinking to international unity please don't into the in the d.l.c. politics leave it to the people of the deal let them decide the outcome with them was old the crisis african leaders the thing eve

but there's the other side of the science-fiction of it. what is aated the potential and is becoming a reality of science fiction level of control that even george orwell would not have been able to imagine. that is the social credit system. if you are not familiar with it, --is essentially a combined again, the companies in china, they are state link. you have the ability to gather data on all the different activities in a person's life, and then it will be used to create a single numeric score of someone's perceived trustworthiness in the eye of the companies and the government itself. it is like a credit score, but it goes beyond it. for example, if you buy diapers, your score goes up because you are a good parent. if you play video games for two billy long, your score goes down because you are screwing around. it is a network. your own just activity, it is the activities of all the other people in your network. brotherple, if your atplains about the service the government run hospital, he is a complainer. your score goes down too. so yo

the novel is fiction. in history's not.how can you adopt something that happened in the past and take it and fictionalize it as your own and stay true to it? >> that's a good question. maybe the right way of thinking about that is not how it is, it's why. the reason why i did it is because every time i tried to figure out a way to write a book that people would read about black history, as soon as i see black history, they will go right to the comedy section. who stole my cheese, whatever it is calls. i wanted to write a book that would add, change the mythology or challenge the mythology of the white world war ii. the white mythology -- to shoulder is the mythology that has gotten us to where we are now. it's a problematic place. i went to change that will challenge that. and also had the dynamics of race and class and mechanisms that america -- that we ignore because we have this wonderful cultural that america is. we just piped our stories in these pipelines of thought. that's why i decided to do it. >> how accurate is i

fiction glance but i think the mistake that religious groups in the new internet in african minds sometimes. is very marginalized communities and people who are more vulnerable in this country so i think it's crazy. the environment abstract that has become extremely dangerous war central kind of the call for the freedom of expression he asked for or so why didn't they not also integration and. also off of anything to do with it which is really just the fact that you you know you talked about internet to you know do you think that this internet here has been helped along by successive governments that are perhaps not counted hardline islam the wing one would have expected them to perhaps. yes absolutely i think that it is very evident prong of the lack of serious attention that has been made by our own state and to the governor who have alarmed impunity deeply the border most you know kind of crime and committed by religious groups act individuals in the needle clearly jim especially with the illusion to. this long lasting music here it is very controversial in fact sung and used it does not

the port city has been dubbed sri lanka's knew by your fictional name is the international financial city especially konami zone with its own business friendly tax regime and regulations. an estimated one hundred million cubic meters of sand we needed before building construction could even start thousands of tons of sand when moved from sri lanka's coastline for the new port city it's being lauded by the country's leaders as a great achievement. to decertify acknowledged again. and. one of them was picked. well if you look one project this could be illiteracy. and it comes at a hefty price for sri lanka local fishermen say it's destroying marine life and their livelihoods. they environmental damage is changing the region's ecosystem some environmentalists say the excavated stand alone is worth more than double the project's anti a budget of one point four billion dollars so while many are celebrating a milestone some sri lankans are concerned the project's potential economic and ecological damage is just beginning. that's a europe today with the latest from the world of business for