please help me welcome robin hansen. [applause] >> i'm going to give a short talk and we will have lots of time for questions and i know there will be lots of questions. no reading unless. [inaudible] >> this is all of history on one graph. on the x axis is the logarithm of time to sometime in the future and on the y access is the growth rate of the human economy and other things before. you notice it looks like a staircase. humans started to million years ago and doubled at a steady rate and then there was a sudden transition when the growth rate jumped up by a factor of more than 50 by having farmers double roughly every 50 years. that happened about 10000 years ago and 200 years ago there was the industrial revolution and then the growth rate jumped up to double every 15 years, and that's what it's been doing for the past few centuries. if this trend were to continue, then sometime in the next century, there would be a five year time period and during that time there would be a transition to an economy that instead of

at ten p.m., a look at the future of robotics with robin hansen. the author of the age of am. we wrap at sunday lineup at 11:00 p.m. was susan. she talks about the relationship between first lady eleanor roosevelt and associated press reporter llerena heacock. first up, here's bradley. >> bradley, 1953 publication of the conservative mind, what was the reception? >> pretty incredible. far more so than anybody would've expected. when it came out it came out in may of 1953. it took about a it took about a month for to catch on. once i did it caught fire. roughly 75 or 80 publications in the english speaking world. everything from the chicago tribune and the new york times, london types, times literary supplement, they all reviewed it, sometimes two or three times and going through the summer feeling like maybe they didn't do it justice the first time. so it caught fire in a way that most academic books never even dream of doing. and certainly as a young man he hopes he would have a good career, and it went well beyond what he was expecting. it put his publisher on the map as wel

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at ten p.m., a look at the future of robotics with robin hansen. the author of the age of am. we wrap at sunday lineup at 11:00 p.m. was susan. she talks about the relationship between first lady eleanor roosevelt and associated press reporter llerena heacock. first up, here's bradley.