and see f9 only in theaters. ♪ ♪ >>> malcolm gladwell is an industry unto himself. spopoint" in 2000. now he's a podcaster. it has been downloaded 100 million times in the last two years, according to his production company. he's out with a new season of the podcast and has many new and fascinating stories to tell. welcome back, malcolm. >> thank you, fareed. >> there was one that caught my attention and that was autonomous cars. everyone talks about this, and yet you don't see it happening as fast as people were predicting. are we moving rapidly to a point where we're going to be able to, you know, do e-mails while the car is actually driving for us? >> yeah, i think it's pretty clear it's coming. the question is how quickly. you know, for my debut, i went to see the self-driving car a waymo and it's very difficult to sit in that and think we're not all going to be in self-driving cars in the future. i was blown away by the technology. >> but when you look at waymo, is that realistic? it's my understanding they're still pretty expensive. they look like some kind of

now, that's making a difference. >>> malcolm gladwell is an industry unto himself.ages starting with "the tipping point" in 2000. now he's a master podcaster. his podcast, revisionist history, has been downloaded more than 100 million times in the last two years, according to his production company. he's out with a new season of the podcast and has many new fascinating stories to tell. welcome back, malcolm. >> thank you, fareed. >> so one that caught my attention was autonomous cars. because everyone talks about this, and yet, you don't see it happening as fast as people were predicting. are we moving rapidly to a point where we're going to be able to, you know, do e-mails while the car is actually driving for us? >> yeah, i think it's pretty clear it's coming. the question is how quickly. i was, you know, for my episode on autonomous cars, i went down to phoenix and rode in waymo, which is google's autonomous vehicle effort. it's incredibly impressive. it's a far cry more sophisticated than the kind of, you know, the systems that are in teslas, for example, it's v

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hosted event with best-selling author and new yorker staff writer malcolm gladwell request he discussedatest book on the development of precision balming. >> the 3 major technological feats and the second biggest project was the b29 bomber, but the third was this little analog computer, mechanical device and a bunch of nobs and buttons and pullies that was intended to solve a problem since first bombs were dropped. how do you make sure it's supposed to land. insanely difficult thing this problem. your plane is going 200 miles an hour, the wind is blowing at 75 miles an hour and the temperature is going to change 100 degrees from the point that you drop the bombs and it lands on the ground and the thing -- the earth is moving on its axis as the bomb is dropping and the cloud cover and people attacking you and shooting bullets at you. the idea that you could drop a bomb accurately under those conditions is ludicrous. so along comes the inventor who goes to the u.s. military, just before the second world war and said i fixed this problem. give me a couple hundred billion dollars and i will

the service is starting with a dozen featured writers including malcolm gladwell and erin andrews asell as jane wells. facebook recruited and is paying these writers for multi-year deals. for now, all of their newsletters are free facebook tells us that many more newsletters are coming and some will be behind a subscription pay wall this is all part of mark zuckerberg's push to draw creators and their fans to facebook's platforms guys, this is really about the land grab in the creator economy. >> speaking of platform competition, you have some fresh reporting on more voices weighing in on anti-trust. >> yeah, that's right, carl. so antitrust regulation is in part designed to prevent giants from squashing upstart competition, but the national venture capital association is opposing proposed legislation, saying these antitrust bills threaten economic growth and could tamp down on -- by tamping down on tech giants' acquisitions of competitors and that could harm innovation sxin fact competition that's all because nearly 60% of start-ups say they expect to be acquired, according to a rec

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the social network's new stand-alone platte form for paid articles -- there's malcolm gladwell, they'vecasts, origin agoal content. this is a clear shot across the bow at substack. the latest push into news-related products. and i bring up substack because the whole theory about facebook, and what do they call it? they call it destroy mode, you either copy, acquire or kill. facebook sees competition, they either copy it, buy it or somehow figure out how to kill it. the move come one day after facebook shares hit all-time highs yesterday after a judge dismissed a federal and state-level antitrust suit. every bit of regulatory action against dismissed. why? because the judge said that the government did not prove that facebook was monopolistic in its behavior. a record-breaking move did thrust the market cap briefly above the $1 trillion mark threshold making it the sixth wealthiest company in the world. you can see it's down about 1.4%, and what does that mean? well, profit taking. the stock is down and below $1 trillion at around $800 billion or so as the market cap. as facebook did dod

put into prepare himself to be a cartoonist and that's of course from the famous phrase some malcolm gladwell a genius takes 10,000 hours of preparation. tell us about those preparation become the man he came yeah success is hard work and talent, you know put together. this is an earliest picture of bill there. he is on the right. you can see already has a pencil and piece of paper in front of him. that's his older brother sid next to him bill was really drawing from the start, but he was also doing like complex mathematics. he was reading novels at age five. he could kind of master any academic tasks that you gave him, but you know where he grew up in the mountains of southern new mexico. that wasn't that didn't seem important to a lot of people he he didn't like farm work and that was the only important thing so bill was the family kind of hoped that bill would become a famous orator or famous artist or a surgeon or you know, even even a preacher or an army general or something like that, but when it came down to it, you know bill is a poor kid high school dropout. he know that none of that

. >>> also, the host of revisionist history malcolm gladwell on some of