we went to the south plainfield curling center. they were wonderful.rder than it looks. take a look at that. that's all of our kids, jackie, vicky, daniel. >> let me just say that sue was a great stoner. i excelled at the sweeping part of it. there i go. that was not i. i don't know who that was. there's dylan sweeping away. >> look at you, ty. >> you need some lunge work there, tyler. >> i really do. >> once i got down on the ice they had to help me off the ice. >> reporter: it's hard. it's hard. watch curling, everybody. >> reporter: you'll have greater appreciation tonight for what they do. >> absolutely. go, team usa. sorry about that for the norwegia norwegians. tune in tonight. curling, only on cnbc, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. eastern time. once again, our thanks to the plainfield curling center, the south plainfield curling center. they were just terrific. >> our coach, former u.s. champion who was there for us on that day. >>> from curling to financial infidelity. there is no way to make that right turn gracefully. what type of cheater are you? what spo

so ty and i went to the south plainfield curling club right here in new jersey to see what it's like.'s really hard. >> see this broom? we're going to teach you to -- >> curling is a nice sport you will see in the winter olympics. it's been in since '98. it was founded originally in scotland. >> we will teach you to press forward, come back, get your foot under here, slide it out like that. that's the position we are going to be looking to get into when we throw a stone. >> i don't even know if i'm going to do it properly. i'm just going to do it. >> push. there you go! that's about as low as it goes, baby. >> hard, very hard. >> it's clean. >> may the best "power lunch" anchor win. are you ready? >> it is a game that at first is not as easy as you might think. people forget during the olympics they're watching some of the world's best players so they do make it look easy. >> sweep it! >> we're going to be good. >> i think everybody gave it their best. i think they had a lot of fun. >> oh, sure. tyler was great. sort of. i would train him full-time. even then, i don't think he has a s

in south plainfield new jersey at the headquarters of there just launched an internet service called world net and i got to see the internet basically spinning up firsthand and sometimes i would work the overnight tech support shift when a friend of mine down the hall would bring me into the control room and they had this big map almost like the map from the movie war games or you know what you might imagine nasa mission control kind of seen a big screen showing the eighteen thousand national network and he would type in a few commands and reroute traffic from one city to another and it was just fascinated by that. i was fascinated by cities and the idea that technology was going to become almost the new railroads you know fiber optic lines connecting cities to something that i really wanted to learn about and i basically spent the next twenty years studying and you've certainly done well. in your book is both. optimistic and cautionary and i'd like to explore both of those threads first of all of the optimistic are you talk about the air of new smart cities there are. some that the